<TITLE>01. Par 1-7</TITLE>60-0301, He Careth For You, First Assembly Of God, Phoenix, AZ, 74 min
L-1 Shall we bow our heads now while we speak to the Author of the Word. Our heavenly Father, we are grateful to Thee for this grand and noble privilege of coming to Thee again this evening, coming humbly in the Name of the Lord Jesus, asking the forgiveness of our sins, and that You will visit us again tonight and give unto us the exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we could do or think.
We pray for every person that's in Divine Presence, for the ones that are sinful, first, that doesn't know Thee that tonight there might come a healing of their soul and their spirit, that they might altogether become Your servants tonight. We pray, Father, that those who are on the fence, as we would call it, they just don't know which way to turn, and it may be, this be their last opportunity, we pray, Father, that they will turn their eyes towards heaven. Grant it, Lord.

L-3 We would not forget those that are convalescence, that's in the hospitals and in the--the homes, and that's sick and cannot attend the service, though they would love to so much. We'd ask that the Angels of God would draw near their bedside tonight. And maybe 'cause that we have assembled together and prayed, that You will let healing power come to them, that they can come tomorrow night to the service and continue on. Grant it, Lord.
There be some here who are sick and afflicted, may this be the night of their deliverance. Bless us together as we wait farther on Thee, for we ask it in Jesus' Name and for His sake. Amen. (May be seated.)

L-5 So good to be back in the house of the Lord tonight. I, just walking in the door out there, and I met a--a fellow. I reached up like this and got ahold of his hand, it was Brother John Sharritt's boy. I don't know how that boy ever growed that much. I asked him, was David as big as he was. And, well, it just seems like a year ago, I was here. And I think it's been about three years. But he was just a little boy running around in a little pair of overalls. And here he is tonight, a strong, tall (Well, I don't think he's listening.), I'll say, handsome young man. But he certainly has growed up. And that's the way everything goes. We're just growing away from ourselves.

L-6 And I was out today to Camelback Mountain, where thirty-three years ago I rode through a wilderness out there on the back of a horse, chased burros behind South Mountain here. I don't think there's any left in Arizona no more; it's all cut up in roads and highways. Well, there's one thing, "Here we have no continuing city; but we're seeking one to come, whose Builder and Maker is God." I know that people coming in, and you have to go out and spread out. But I just hated to see the old cactus beds leave, and turned into housing projects. And--and just look like... I hate to see that. I hoped I wouldn't stay long enough to see it. It's... I--I like the original somehow. Oh, you got beautiful homes; that's true. But that's--that's perverted; that's what man has done. My thought of beauty isn't what man has made, but my thought of beauty is the way God makes it. Just to look, that's the way I like it.

L-7 But our nation is going, or our people are going, and everything here is going. I've stood on where the great Pharaohs once stood and the great powers that ruled the world, and you'd have to dig twenty feet under the earth to find the ruins of their kingdoms. And in where the Caesars in Rome, walk down the street and they'd say, "Twenty feet below here was where So-and-so, the great emperor..." Oh, my. There... because we have no continuing city.
So our hopes is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' Blood, with righteousness;
When all around my soul gives way,
He's then all my hope and stay.
On Christ the solid Rock I stand;
All other grounds are sinking sand.
(That's what we look forward to.)


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