<TITLE>09. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 Like old Congressman Upshaw that was healed in a meeting, after being in a wheelchair and crutches for sixty-six years, he always had a little slogan; he said, "You can't be nothing that you hain't." And that's really the truth; that--that's what you can't be.
Oh, people now... You know, you don't even know when your--your neighbor dies, less you see it in the paper any more. They don't have no more fellowship like we used to have. We're going down a street ninety miles an hour, and turn the corner, and stop, and talk for a hour before you go home. Oh, is... There's something insane about the whole thing. But people in them days loved one another. They had time, fellowship and--and to talk to each other.

L-35 And Elisabeth saw her cousin, and she run out, and threw her arms around her, and begin to hug her. She said, "Oh, Mary, why the last time I seen you, you was a little freckle faced girl; and here you are, a beautiful woman. And now, I heard that you were going with that fine boy, Joseph."
She said, "Yes, that is true, Elisabeth."
"Well," she said, "I'm so glad to see you. Why, honey, why don't you come set down, why Joseph has gone to fetch some water, so I can wash your feet. You must be tired; they're bleeding. Is there anything wrong? Are you in a hurry? You seem to be so happy, but yet look like you've been hastening."
"Oh," she says, "Elisabeth, I just can't wait to tell you. Oh," she said, "you know, I'm going to have a Baby."
"Oh, you and Joseph already married?"
"No, we're not married yet."
"Well, Mary, I'm shocked."
"Oh, but Elisabeth, on the road to the well day before yesterday morning, I was going along, thinking about the Scriptures that Joseph and I had been talking about the day before. And I seen a great big Pillar of Fire stand before me. Stepping out of It was Gabriel, the Angel of God, Who called me by my name, and told me that I'd found favor before God, that the Holy Ghost was going to overshadow me, and that the power of God would be upon me, and I'd have a Child, and He'd be called the Son of God." And said, "He told me that you were to be a mother also, old age like this, and said you was already six months."
"Oh," she said, "Mary, that is the truth. I'm to be a mother, but honey, I am so worried. I'm already six months to motherhood, and the baby has never moved; it hasn't had one bit of life yet. And I'm just so worried about it."
Oh, I can hear Mary say, "Don't worry, because everything will be all right. That Angel knowed you and called your name too, 'Your cousin, Elisabeth.' Oh, everything will be all right. And He told me... He even give me my Baby's Name."
"Oh, He did?"
"Yes, He give me my Baby's Name. He said I should call His Name Jesus."

L-36 Just about the time she said, "Jesus" for the first time that that Name was ever spoke by human lips, little John received the Holy Ghost, and begin to jumping and shouting in his mother's womb. Oh, my! Little John begin to leap in the mother's womb for joy. If the Name of Jesus Christ, the first time it was ever spoke through the human lips, brought a dead baby that had never had no life, brought him to life, what ought it to do in this church tonight, with a borned again bunch of people that's filled with the Holy Spirit, and the Angel of the Lord here nightly showing Himself, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? That glorious Name of the Lord Jesus...
Oh, there is power, power,
Wonder working power,
In the precious Blood of the Lamb.
How that great, wonderful, immaculate, Name, that inscribable Name of the Lord Jesus...


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