<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 And I wish I was financially able so that you wouldn't even have to never mention an offering. I'd have to mention it anyhow because... I did that one time by a great check that somebody was going to give me, more than I thought that should be given, but I--I wouldn't accept it. And so the brother said, "Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll just take the check, if you'll come and go to a meeting we won't have any--take up one offering or anything."
I said, "That's fine; I'll do that." Said then, I did that and it was not a success. People has to have something in the meeting. See, it's their meeting. And they'd meet me on the street and ask me, "What's the matter with this meeting? We haven't got no part into it; they don't even take up an offering." So an offering is part of worship. That's right. I know more that than ever since the other day when I was going to give Hattie Wright back that twenty dollars that she'd pledged towards the new Tabernacle in Jeffersonville; the Lord said, "Just let her alone." And a few minutes later I see why He said let her alone.

L-8 So from--I just made a promise in my heart I was never going to try to stop anybody that wanted to give something towards the Kingdom of God. I've did it a many times, turned it down just as fast as I could. And I've realized that I have robbed people by doing that, because God had a program for that and--or He wouldn't have put it... I don't believe in begging, no, sir. I don't believe in begging, or... people, but just--just tell the people and let--let it be like that. God takes care of the rest of it. Don't you believe that? Sure, He does. He puts it upon the people's heart. But many times I think He's put it upon their hearts to do something, and then I've turned around and conflicted with that by saying, "No, I wouldn't take it, no, sir, won't do it." And I think about Jesus with that little widow putting in all her living, three pennies, and thousands of dollars the rich man had put in. But He never stopped her; He let her go right on, 'cause He knowed what He was going to do for her.

L-9 Now, on these handkerchiefs, if we happen to miss your handkerchief in this meeting, why, you just write to us at Jeffersonville, Indiana, and we'll be glad to pray over one and send it to you. It's absolutely free.
Now, we don't have nothing to sell. Well, I take that back. The boys has the books and tapes and the pictures, I think, and so forth, in the back of the building. And they're... I buy those books. Brother Gordon Lindsay prints those books, and I buy them for forty cents less than I have to sell them, then pay for them to be transferred. You know what you make? You don't make nothing; you lose on them. It's the message. And the pictures, I think they just about--expenses to send them is about... We don't want to make nothing. We brought nothing into this world; it's certain we take nothing out. What we're trying to do... I wouldn't even let those books be there, or those things, if I didn't think it would help you some way. See? And I've told the boys if--I've walked to the book stand, stand around, watch a few minutes to see an old dad come up and say, "How much is that book?"
"It's fifty cents."
And he'd reach down, "Only got..." Give it to him anyhow; let it go. See? Anyone that can't afford it, and anything like that, some poor person, let him have it. That's right. It'll come some other way, somewhere. And so, it always has, and it always will, if you just put God first; that's all; put God first.


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