<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>60-0401M, Why?, First Apostolic Church, Tulsa, OK, 32 min
L-1  All things are possible, Lord I believe;
 Lord, I believe, Lord, I believe,
 All things are possible, Lord, I believe.
Let us just bow our heads now for prayer.
Our heavenly Father, Thou knowest the heart of man. And how we thank Thee for this time of--of spiritual fellowship and worship with these dear people in the Presence of the Holy Spirit.
O God, we pray that You'll bless this little church and all of it's affiliated little churches everywhere, the school. Bless Thy people everywhere, Father. Get glory unto Thyself and speak to us now, further in the Word. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Can be seated.

L-2 Brother Williams, both Senior and Junior, Brother Osborn, and brothers and sisters, may it never die. May it stay alive. I am so happy this morning to know, after all these (about fourteen years) to come back into this church and find that same glorious Spirit moving among the people. It is such a jewel, such a Presence of God. It is so scarce. You--I'm sure this morning, you don't realize that how well off you are. It's such a rest for my eyes to look upon people's faces and see the glory of God shining forth.
Brother Tommy and I were setting there, even watching little girls and little boys enter into that worship of the Lord, see women, young girls, middle age, old, and all, washed faces and clean, men expressing from their hearts.
You--I'm sure it's use--you're just used to it, because it's an everyday occurrence for you, but to me it's a jewel.

L-3 One time there was a--an old fisherman coming from the sea and a man going to the sea for rest. And the man had worked. He was an artist. And he said he was going to take a rest, so he went down to the sea. He'd never seen it before; he had read about it, saw the pictures of it, but he had never seen it before. And on his road that morning, down to the seashore, he met an old salt or old sailor, coming from the sea. And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "Oh, sir, I'm going down to relax myself. I'm going down to the sea." He said, "I'm so anxious to smell the salt from the briny waves as they play back and forth and frolic on the shore. I want to hear the scream of the sea gull as it passes over." And he tried to explain how he was--what he was going to do.
And the old salt said to him, said, "I don't see nothing so attractive about it, but I've been on it for forty years. I don't see nothing attractive about it."

L-4 I think that's what's the matter. See? You just don't realize. You're just right in it all the time (See?), but to me it's a--it's a bouquet from heaven, that's... It's something real. See, you can get so used to anything until it isn't attractive to you, much. But when it comes to the place to when you have--you've read about it, you've heard about it, and then walked right into it, there's just something you'd--you don't--you're--you're kinda stumped for words to say.
I had a little jubilee, now few weeks ago at Brother Outlaw's church out in--in Arizona. I--I just didn't understand. I was--go--my work amongst the people... And I try to visit every organization, denomination, trying to work the best that I can, standing between the breaches for the people. When I walked up there that day, and looked over that group, and heard that choir sing like this morning, and see those young men and young women standing there, just in the--their faces glittering... Look out and see an old person setting there, their eyes just as shiny... The power of God--I just took down my collar, and throwed back my coat, and...
And then come into it again this morning. Maybe if I'd a--to go over another week now, looks like. There's kindly... so good...


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