<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 As I was speaking this afternoon, God is a God of variety. He makes us different. He makes His mountains different. He makes His--the mountains, the deserts, the seas, the lakes, the little fish, the big fish, the big men, the little men, fat, wide, skinny, indifferent. He makes them. That's all. That's His way of doing it. And if He likes it that way, amen, That's the way I like it too. But we must all realize that we're God's creation, creatures of His creation.
Now, I just don't know how to express my thankfulness. As I was sitting behind the platform to hear of the brethren who've taken up a love offering for me, for the overseas. That's wonderful.

L-6 I met with Brother Borders and some of the brethren. I know we're just here three days. And they don't just give you these buildings, and the lights and so forth. And I said, "Brethren, don't take no love offering for me. Just go ahead and put it on the expenses. And if you don't meet all the expenses, they gave me a love offering at Angelus Temple. I'll put that in on the expenses. It'd be worth ten million times what I got just to find this fine bunch of cooperative people."
It's my heart to see brothers, one. If I could see every church in the world break down their ideas and barriers, put their arms around one another, and for that one forever more, we are brothers, one great united Christian army. I'd raise my hands like Simeon of old, "Now, Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace according to Thy Word, for my eyes have seen Thy salvation." That's right. I'd love to see that. The... It's been my heart's desire.

L-7 When I come from the Baptist church, I walked away, not because they put me out; I just come out on my own calling. Still have good standing with the Missionary Baptist church. When I come into Pentecostal, I just seen one group. And I thought that's the reason they called it Pentecost. Come to find out, there's just about as many denominations of Pentecost as there is of--of Baptists. There's a...
But I want to say this to my Baptist friends, Presbyterians, and whatmore: when Pentecost tries to think or say that it's an organization, it's wrong. Pentecost is an experience, not an organization. See? We experience Pentecost by the new birth. Pentecost is an experience that a Methodist can have, Baptist, Catholic, whoever will that wants a Pentecostal experience, can have it, because it's for "Whosoever will, let him come." And so, the Lord grant these things.
And when I come in to find, the very thing that I'm striving for, it here right by me. You know how it makes me feel. I just--I just dread going home tonight. I do.

L-8 Now, the money that you gave... I never took an offering in my life. The closest I ever come was one time when I was really up against it. We didn't have any money to make a payment on a--something that we had, wife and I. And I said to her, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering tonight."
I pastored the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville seventeen years without a penny. And so, I worked for a living. And I would do it now, if I could just do it. And then I... Not because they wouldn't give me an offering; they'd give me anything they had. But I just wanted to work, let them keep their money. And so, I knowed they needed it.


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