<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>60-0711, The Door Inside The Door, City High School, Klamath Falls, OR, 101 min
L-1 Thank you very much, you may be seated. I certainly deem this a great privilege to be here on this Monday night and seeing this nice turn out of people hungering and thirsting for God.
I believe the Scripture said, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." And if God has given us that blessed promise, then the only thing that would keep us from being filled with everything that we thirst for, would be because we do not believe it. We could just believe now, that God will give us the very thing that we're here for, we'll all go home tonight so happy and satisfied.
I'm so glad that He supplies our every need. He promised He would do that. Now, He never promised that He would supply our wants, but it was our needs that He would supply. I'm so glad of that, because there's many times that we want things that's not good for us.

L-2 I was just thinking of that the other day, when I was trying to shave with a straight razor. And my, I was very awkward with it; I had never undertaken it before. And my little boy, Joseph, was saying, "Daddy, let me do it, too." Five years old... And I thought now... And he cried because I wouldn't let him have the razor. But you see, I knew better than to do that.
And that's the way God is. Sometimes we think that we must have certain things, and we'd only hurt ourself with it. So if we'll just be submissive and humble, like little children before Him, God will supply what we have need of.
And if--and if I being a father of flesh and of the earth, love my little boy enough not to let him have a straight razor, regardless of how much he cries for it, how much more does our heavenly Father know, though we cry for something that we think we have need of? But He promised us that all things would work together for good to them that love God. And, again it is written, "He will not withhold any good thing from them that walk upright before Him." Isn't that a promise?

L-3 So, I've always had a little slogan that I always give to people as: Do three things in life. First thing is do right; that's your duty to God. Think right; that's your duty to yourself; and you're bound to come out right. That's exactly right. You do right, and then think right. And as long as you are going right, you can't be going wrong.
When my boy, Billy, about fourteen years old... Before I sent him down to the Bible school, he was in the common school and did not have a very good background. And all the children, girls, boys smoking and carrying on... And one day I come into the house and set down. And Billy was staying with his grandmother. And while the Presence of the Lord was near, there was a vision: I seen my boy with a cigarette in his hand. That liked to killed me.

L-4 So, after while, his bicycle stopped out front, and he came in and said, "Hello, dad," and run, threw his arms around me.
I took him in my hands, and I said, "Billy, when did you start this?"
He said "What, daddy?"
I said, "Smoking."
He said, "I don't..."
I said, "Don't tell me. You do smoke, Billy."
He started crying. I couldn't keep from it. I went out to the bathroom; I set down out there, and I cried like a baby. I thought, "His mother in glory and last thing she said to me, 'Take care of Billy.' And here I've tried to put the example before him and to see him do a thing like that," it almost killed me.


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