<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Saturday morning is a Christian Businessman's breakfast. I suppose that that's been set. It's--it's set. And then I think tomorrow morning is a ministerial breakfast. And that's held at the Seven Plaza. And the Christian Businessman's? Edgewater Beach. And so I believe I'm to speak at both of these services.
So the Lord bless you now as we ask His blessings on the reading of the Word, and that He will give us tonight of His Spirit.
Now, let us lay aside every little fret and flusteration of the day. Not a weary, cast aside everything, and now look to Him for the next thirty or forty minutes.
Lord, we are glad that we have the Living Word and the Written Word, and they bare record one with the other. That makes us rest assured that when we read this blessed Bible, that it's a challenge to us. And we know the One Who wrote It is present, ever present to make every word true and right. So sink the Word tonight deeply into the hearts of the people with the Holy Spirit. Water It with confession and repentance that, It might grow into great trees of salvation, that wayward men and woman might come set under Its branches and take rest for their souls. Get glory unto Thyself, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-10 I want to take a text tonight called this: "The Time Of Decision." I want to read from Genesis 24:58, just one verse.
And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
You know, we have been forced to make decisions. There is times when we have to come to the place where we got to say "yes" or "no." That's just in human life. There's a time where we cannot stand neutral. And if God shall permit, I don't believe that we'll be able to leave this church tonight in the same conditions we did when we come in to it. If the Holy Spirit shall come and do His work among us, then we are forced to say "yes" or "no." We cannot remain the same.

L-11 And the time had come for Abraham, the great patriarch and servant of God, to make a decision. And this decision was, that he was to decide just on who his son, Isaac, that he'd waited twenty-five years for, and had received him as one from the dead, and knowed that he was a called and separated messenger of God... And there was a time come when he had to make the decision: Who would be his helpmate to carry on the plan of God?
You see, God don't make all of our decisions. And there's many times that God doesn't tell His prophets just what to do, because they have to make the decision. If there is no decision that we have to make, just wait every move on God, then there is no overcoming on our part. And sometimes, they make the wrong decision. God's anointed prophets makes the wrong decisions, and many times are deceived.

L-12 Did you ever think of Isaac, when Esau and Jacob came up to this mighty prophet of the Lord setting there physically blind, and that time, spiritually blind. And Jacob had placed a piece of sheepskin around his neck and wore Esau's coat, so he'd smell like the fields. And his father, with his prophetic hands laid on his son, was spiritually deceived by his son, yet being a prophet.
How did Elijah, the mighty man of God... When the Shunammite woman came rushing in weepingly, Elijah knew that she was troubled, and he said, "God has kept it from me."
So the time has been allotted to every man to make his decision whether he is a preacher, or a prophet, or a church member, or whatmore, he's got to make a decision.


<A HREF="P4">Next Page</A>