<TITLE>03. Par 7-11</TITLE>L-7 Let us bow our heads for prayer. O Lord, we wonder just what we would have said if we'd a lived in those days. But we are living in a greater day, when we are looking for Him to come. And as we are making preparation, Lord, getting our hearts prepared, and bringing in all the sheaves that we can gather from the harvest fields, both at home and abroad, we are thinking and in anticipating on the time that we shall see Him coming, riding on a white horse, coming down from the portals of glory to change and fashion this old corruptible bodies of ours into a glorious body like unto His own; where there can be no sin or no sign of death ever enter. And we shall see Him as He is, and live and love Him throughout all ages that is to come.

L-8 We thank Thee for this church, and for its pastor, and for the trustees, and the deacons, and for every person that comes here, and for the visitors that's in our gates, that's sheep of the same fold, but from another corral. We would ask that You would bless them tonight with Your Presence; and feed us on Thy Word, that we might go from here tonight with a determination to be better Christians than we have ever been. May we go with a new hope in our heart, and with joy, waiting for His coming.
If by chance, there would be some among us who are sick and afflicted, we would not forget to pray for them, that they, coming into the building tonight, where we have gathered for the worship, coming in sick, may they go out well. And we would ask for those that are convalescing in the homes and the hospitals, and are on the beds of affliction, we pray, O God, that Your mercy will reach down to them.

L-9 We would pray for those that are indifferent tonight, that has not yet tasted and seen the Lord is good, that doesn't know what it means to be loved by God. They just don't understand what they are missing. O God, may some radio broadcaster, some way touch their hearts, and their emotions may be turned to Thee before the door of mercy be closed and they be shut out to stand the judgments without mercy. Help us, Lord.
These things we pray in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and for His glory we ask it. Amen.

L-10 The people was so crowded around the gates, and the streets were jammed, and there was not even room for people to sleep. They were laying outside the wall, all over the grounds; because this was the Passover. And people come from all over the known world to worship at this time.
It was a time when the pascal lamb was slain, and the... It represented their deliverance out of Egypt, the bondage. And they kept this annually; every year this great Passover took place. And it was one of the most outstanding times of the--or events of the Jewish religion, because it meant the time they were delivered. All people love to think of that, the time they were delivered.

L-11 How that each of us tonight can go back to the time when we were delivered, what it meant to us... I can remember in my own experience, of how my poor boy's heart craved to touch God. I thought, "If I could only go up and knock on His door and talk to Him a little while."
And of course, you know my story. I got me a paper and pencil, and was going to write Him a letter, 'cause I couldn't talk to Him. And I knowed that He lived in the woods, because I'd heard Him, and I'd seen His moving in the woods. And I... A certain old familiar path that I used to go down when I would be hunting or going fishing, I thought I'll--I'll just tack it on the tree and address it to Mr. Jesus. Just some way so that that burden could be from my heart...
On that night down yonder... I might forget my age. I might even forget my name sometimes. But I can never forget that hour when He delivered me from sin. Something took place down inside me, that it's helped me through the great hours and darkness, the hour of my deliverance. The weights of sin left me, and I was a new person. I'd been a new creature in Christ Jesus ever since.


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