<TITLE>04. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 [Someone speaks in tongues and another interprets--Ed.]...?... Thank the Lord. Amen.
Have you noticed recently... It has been in the meetings where I've been holding, all around, nationwide, and into Cuba and--and down into the islands, every time an interpretation comes, it's always, "If thou will believe My word..." See? Believe it. Oh, that was the question Jesus asked, "Will I find faith when I return?" He didn't say, "Will I find churches, will I find religion," but "will I find faith?" Not even... He didn't question sincerity, but He questioned faith.
Now, may the Lord, Who has spoken through the interpretation of the gifts of tongues, may He let His Spirit just move in this building tonight and give everybody faith.

L-12 I shall now read from the Book of Saint Luke the 1st chapter, and begin at the 73rd verse for a text. And my subject tonight is "All The Days Of Our Life."
 The oath which he sware unto our father Abraham,
 That he would grant unto us, that... being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear,
 In holiness... righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
I like that: All The Days Of Our Life.

L-13 When we receive Christ, it isn't just for a few hours, or just for the time of the revival, but it's to last all the days of our life. I think each person coming to Christ ought to set down first and think, before you even go to the meeting. "If God should call me, am I ready? If He should speak to my heart tonight, should I stand up; am I ready to surrender all my life to Him?" That's the only way that He will accept you is when you give all your life.
Man is prone to have his own way. Man wants to do things in--but he wants to do it in his own way. He showed that just a few hours after his fall. In the garden of Eden he wanted to do it his way. Because man is always satisfied as long as he's doing it his own way.

L-14 Did you ever notice when you're driving with somebody else. There's just all kinds of mistakes that they make. You push the floorboard out on the other side almost, trying to stop the car yourself. And in your mind you say, "Well, why did he do that?" or, "Why'd he turn this a way? I would've did it so-and-so."
See, that's just the nature of man. He wants his own way. And God did not make man to desire his own way. God made man to depend on Him, to forsake his way to crucify his way. He likened us unto sheep. And the sheep is one animal that cannot find his own way. He must be led. A little lamb can lose hisself from the fold, and he's just totally lost. He just stands there and bleats.
And that's the way it is with the human being. If he becomes a lamb, if his nature is changed, he depends wholly upon God and upon God's leading. But the earth man, when Adam realized that he had fallen from that estate, where God had him wholly depending on Him, Adam quickly showed his second nature, his fallen nature. And he wanted a way back, to be redeemed, but he wanted to do it his way and after his own thinking.

L-15 I trust that the church will understand this: that we have no right to use our own thinking about things. When we become Christians, we totally surrender every bit of our mental powers to God and follow after His leading. And as long as we try to go after our own feeling, then we are using the fallen state of the being.
'Cause God led Adam before the fall; and after the fall, Adam wanted to lead God. Now, God provided Adam a way, but he didn't want that way. He wanted to make himself a religion. And as we see that he--he wanted to do it himself. He wasn't willing to wait on God, and say, "Lord, You led me before this. And now I'm fallen; I'm lost. Now, help me and show me how to get back to You, Lord." We'd have never had all this trouble we got today.


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