<TITLE>05. Par 36-42</TITLE>L-36 And if you see one of the members of the Body of Christ doing something evil, don't tell nobody else; but go to that member, and with love, and see if you can't bring them back to Christ again. And if you can't do it, then tell one person, or let them go with you. Do it the way the Scripture said. See? But don't...
If somebody said, "Sister So-and-so, or Brother So-and-so," don't you believe one word of it. You just leave it go. Because, remember, it's the devil trying to tear you to pieces. Now, just look for him to come in, 'cause he'll do it. Now, you let the good man of the house, faith, stand right there, and don't you receive one thing. These people have been set in heavenly places with you, fellowship together around the blessings of God, taking the communion at the table, and the Holy Spirit has witnessed that they are the children of God. So let's just be real sweet, kindhearted, forgiving, loving. And if the other person talks evil against you, you talk sweet against them. Watch how sweeter it comes to you then. See? That's right. Just always return good for evil, love for hate. And just...

L-38 Are you feeling better, sweetheart, the little girl in the back? That's good. I'm so thankful. Yeah, just went back... She was doubled up back there in a knot, and the Lord Jesus has brought her forth now and presented her to the meeting. We're so thankful for that. That's what I left the pulpit for a few moments ago. Said they'd prayed and prayed, couldn't get through to the Lord.
Now, be sure to do that. Pledge yourself that to God, "God, by Your grace, that's what I'll do." No matter when anyone says evil; return good. Don't think evil. If you do think evil, and you're just hypocritically saying it, then--then--then you're wrong. You just keep on consecrating yourself to God until you really feel good to that person. That's the way to do it. Then the sweetness of God's blessings will just, oh, it'll just cover your soul. That's the way to live victorious; then nothing can harm you as long as you're in love. Well, you say...

L-40 See, "If you have tongues, they'll cease. And if you have wisdom, it'll vanish. Prophecies, it'll fail. But when you got love, it'll endure for ever." See?
And don't love only those who love you, but love those who do not love you. For it's easy for me to love anybody that loves me, but try to love somebody who doesn't love you. That's where you can test whether you're a Christian or not; somebody that don't love you, and yet in your heart you love them... Now, if you don't do that, then just keep holding onto God. It's there, 'cause I know it to be the truth. Amen. I know that it's the truth.

L-42 Now, we're going to open up the precious Word now to the Book of Hebrews and the 11th chapter, just for a--a short Message. Being a little hoarse, but I had a wonderful afternoon with brethren and sisters, and never got in till almost six o'clock, and I just run into the room and knelt down at the side of the bed, at the bedroom, and prayed for a few moments, got up, and picked up my Bible, and started to read. And I seen a magazine laying there, and I picked it up, and it was wrote in Afrikaans, so I couldn't read that.
And sometimes, in reading, you'll strike a word, and that word becomes alive to you. That's the way a minister gets his, his message. Just start reading, reading the Bible, something. First thing you know, you strike something, then something adds to that something, something adds to that something. Then underline it, and just go to the pulpit and read it. God will do the rest of it. See, He'll take care of the rest.
Now, sometimes you get so carried away till you make little thoughts of what, little notes of thoughts that you've thought of. Sometimes in a meeting, where you have to come quickly to the platform, that, just read over them little thoughts that you had, maybe the Holy Spirit will quicken them to you again. Done that many's a time.


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