<TITLE>04. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 And it's good, I think, on New Year's night to see different preachers, and the way they approach a text, and what they say, and so forth, and each man having his own way of preaching.
You know, God didn't make us all alike. He made us different. He made us different in our stature; He made the world different, and big mountains, the little mountains, prairies, deserts, and big white flowers, blue flowers, and all different kinds. He just makes us different; that's all. He makes red heads, black heads, brown heads, white heads; fat, slim, tall, oh, whatevermore. See? He just... He just makes us different. God is a God of variety. And I kind of like that, don't you? But just the same thing all the time... My, my. I like this.
So let us turn now in our Scriptures over in the book of Saint Matthew, Saint Matthew's Gospel, beginning with the--and the 4th verse. I want to read for a--read us a text, the Lord helping us. Saint Matthew, the 4th chapter. I believe before we read, let's pray.
Gracious heavenly Father, it is again with g--gr--grateful hearts that we approach this new year. And we are--approach Thee, and bring to Thee all of our cares of the past, and ask that You'll put them in the sea of forgetfulness, and remember our sins against us no more. And may not only we check up with our spiritual being, but in our--may we check our fellowship with Thee, and forgive us of all of our sins. And we ask that Your Spirit will deal with us tonight. And if there be any unclean thing about us, Lord, take it as far as the east is from the west, cast it into the sea of forgetfulness, to remember it against us no more, that we might enter into this new year clean, washed by the Blood of the Lamb, and be ready. May this 1960 be the greatest year that we've ever served You. Give us the exceedingly abundantly.
All these meetings that are in progress, Lord, that we're thinking of, with Brother duPlessis, and around the world, into the Asia, and over into Europe, and all--all around. Lord l--let it be Your will and Your power that'll lead to these things. And if we should at any time be stepping off of Your Divine ordained path, may the Holy Spirit put a block in the way and stop us, Lord, and turn us back to the right place. Grant it.

L-14 Bless this little church, Lord God, way close to thirty years, I guess, it's stood here now, as a memorial of the grace of God to a humble people. We pray, Father, that You'll bless Brother Neville, the pastor. Bless all the church. Bless the trustees, the deacons, the song leader, the pianist, and all the laity, everyone, the Sunday school teachers, whatevermore. Lord, may we be able to grow this year in the grace of God. And may our membership grow into greater numbers, and--and--and more grace of Yours. That... Then in this has been in the years gone by. Grant it, Father.
Now, help us as we approach this text that we're fixing to read, Thy Word. And only You, Lord, can interpret. And we pray that You'll grant it to us for the Kingdom of God's sake, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.

L-15 I--announcing just now what I have chosen for a text for a next few moments, it's found in the Scripture here, and I will read it. It's call... I want to call it this: "From That Time."
I didn't think... I said the other night, I didn't suppose I'd get to come down, because that my throat was getting raw. And my wife said to me yesterday, or day before, she said, "Then I suppose you'll not be going down to the church."
And I said, "Honey, I don't think so. My throat's so sore and raw."
And then, no more than that night when I set down and picked up the Scripture, I run onto this. Brother Sothmann came by; he said, "Will you be going to church tomorrow night?"
I said, "Yeah, I will be there."
And Meda looked around at me, and she said, "I don't understand you."
I said, "I don't expect you to." See? I said, "or no one else."


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