<TITLE>16. Par 154-159</TITLE>L-154 The Kingdom of God is like a man that throwed a net in the sea, and when he brought it forth, he had turtles, terrapins, snakes, frogs, some fish. Wasn't him to decide which, he just throwed it upon the bank. That's what the Gospel does. That's what Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, myself, and all other preachers that's preaching the Gospel, throw it out, pull it in; "There they are, Lord." But what are we doing every time? We find out, 'fore you can get back again, they're right back out in the pond again. What is it? To begin with, it was a turtle. That didn't change him to get caught in the Gospel net. He was a turtle to begin with. He was a terrapin to begin with. He was a snake to begin with. He was a hypocrite before he ever come into the church. He had no desire even to quit his drinking, and gambling, and smoking, and lying, and stealing. He just come in because he was a-scared of hell. You're making yourself a more a candidate for it, when you do that. That's true. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there'll be that'll find it." Let's pray.

L-155 Lord, oh, search me, Lord. Try my case right now, Lord. Don't let me have to come before judgment before You after preaching this way. Oh, if there be any unclean thing in me, Lord, take it away, please. We see a day that we're living in, when men and women are becoming so starchy. They're ashamed. You said one time, "There's no even blush amongst the daughters of Zion." Their modesty has been so taken away, till they don't even blush no more. O Lord, think of it. And know that the timepiece yonder's beating away, just a minute or two more, and the great destruction will come, then let him that's filthy be filthy still.
God, wake us all up this morning. Shake us, Lord. We see the signs appearing. We got our eyes open to know that. We see millions, millions, Lord, that's turned their back and gone away. I wonder, what can I do, what can I do, O Lord? Is there anything, Lord? If it takes more preaching, more prayer, more anything, help me, Lord, that I might bring the Message to the people. What can I do? But they continually turn it down. You do Your great signs and perform Your wonders, and yet the people march right on. Is it Your Scripture must be fulfilled, is it the time that "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him, and all that the Father has given Me will come to Me"? Lord God, grant this morning that people will wake up and see this last sign of the earth. I pray, God, that You'll grant something to the people.

L-157 Bless this little people here this morning. God, start with Brother Neville, Lord. Heal his body. He's sick this morning, Lord, stomach's upset. I pray that Your healing hand will be upon him. Stir his soul.
God, go out amongst this congregation. There's men and women setting here that I may never see them again until that day at the judgment, then I've got to give an account. But I've read Your Word, "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that find it." O Lord, let this be that "few," some of them, will You, Lord? Grant that every person here.

L-159 I pray as a man could only pray. Lord, these people would do anything for me, as far as to help me. If I was hungry, they'd feed me. If I needed a suit, they'd buy it. They'd go together and buy me a car to preach the Gospel. They'd do anything in that way. O Father, search their souls this morning; please do, and let them search it out before You. I don't know; I trust that every one of them is in that elect. And put me there too, Lord. And if there be any reason in me that I wouldn't be there, Lord, You just reveal it to me; I'll make it right right now. I want to be sure, Lord, that on that morning there'll be no trouble at the river. I want to go in that day. I don't know when that'll be; it may be yet today. So help me to know; help these people to know.


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