<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 I just love little children. I got two little girls at home. One of them is Rebekah and the other one is Sarah.
Here sometime ago, I was away. They're both daddy's little girls, you know, and I love them. And as soon as they get in I got to give them a piggy-back, and--only Becky's getting too big for it; she's big as I am. She'd break my back now; she's--but she's still daddy's little girl, anyhow. And now, about another year, we want to get her in Bible school somewhere and away from the public school.
And then--they was waiting up for daddy, you know, to come home. I'd been out in the meeting. (And tomorrow night they'll be waiting until midnight for me to try to get in.) And so, I got in real early in the morning, around three or four o'clock. And mother come to the door and let me in, and I was so tired and weary, I... Here on the platform, I--when the--anointed it feels fine, but when that once leaves you, that's where you get in trouble. How many ever knew that? Why, sure it is.

L-18 Look. Elijah went up on the mountain and called fire out of heaven, called rain out of heaven, and then when the Spirit left him, he wandered in the wilderness forty days and God found him, pulled back in a cave somewhere.
Jonah, he went down and stayed live in a belly of a whale for three days and nights, was spit out upon the bank and went around preaching. The whole city repented and come to God. And when the anointing left him, he went up on top of the hill and asked God to take his life. See?
I stand by the side of William Cowper's grave, not long ago, that wrote that famous hymn that we use at our communion service,
There is a Fountain Filled with Blood,
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins,
Where sinners plunged beneath the flood...
Did you ever hear what he--happened to him? After the inspiration left him from that, he tried to find the river to commit suicide.

L-19 I live right across from the old Kentucky Home. And Stephen Foster gave America its most famous folk songs. And when he'd write, get inspiration up, that inspiration write a song, then when he come out of it, he'd go get on a drunk. Finally, called a servant and took a razor and committed suicide.
People don't know what those people that live in the spiritual realm go through. Now here, you feel like you could move a mountain, but just let the anointing drop from you, and start through that door... If somebody ain't there to catch you... See? And then, maybe for a few hours you hardly wonder where you're at. And then night after night, that takes the best of you.

L-20 And little... Want to tell you about little Sarah and Rebekah. So the next morning, I couldn't sleep, and I'd got up, was setting in a chair, and after a while Becky, being the oldest, she was--had longer legs than Sarah, and so Becky come running--woke up, jumped out of bed, not waking her little sister up, and here she come through the house, running as hard as she could. She was saying, "Daddy, daddy..." And I stuck out one of my legs, and she jumped across there, pretty well balanced (kinda like the--the modern church, you know, it's been in the game for a long time, you know, for several hundred years.) She could balance herself right well, and she put her arms around me and said, "Oh, my daddy, my daddy..."
And little Sarah had, in the commotion, woke up. Well, I don't know whether your children does it not; mine does: The younger one gets the hand-me-downs. And so Sarah had on Becky's pajamas, feet about that much too long, you know. And here she come, little bitty short fellow, falling, stumbling. And she got there a little late. So Becky turned around and said, "Sarah, my sister, I want to tell you something." She said, "I was here first. And I have the monopoly. So I've got all of daddy and there's none left for you."
That's the way some people tries to think about religion, isn't it? That's right.


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