<TITLE>13. Par 46-49</TITLE>L-46 Just like in the world--after the First World War... Many of you middle aged men, and about my age... I think I was eight or nine years old when the war ended. And I remember when it--they declared war: 1914, I was a little baby boy setting on a spring wagon. My father had a sack of beans; that's what we lived on--beans and corn bread: still like it. And so, they... Pop was talking about war, and he might have to go to war.
I said, "If them...?... fellows come after you, I'll take this sack of beans and hit them with it." And so, now that's when I was so little.
And then, I remember that when he got me my first pair of shoes, he--he said he was going down, him and mama, to pick them out. I'd been barefooted. You know, the little boys down in the mountains where I was raised just had a, what you call the old hickory--a little apron like or a little shirt when you was a little boy. I wore that till I was about six years old, I guess. And my first pair of shoes, they had the cap across them, that's got them little holes in them.
And I'd always, when I'd get a splinter in my hand, I'd run to Mama, and she'd pick it out like that. And I thought them little holes in my shoes was where they'd took a needle and picked them out of somewhere, 'cause Mama said she had to go down and "pick me out" a pair of shoes. I thought she did it with a needle. So...

L-47 But after the world war, I remember the message come out: "We will never have no more war. War is over." That was good intentions; they meant that. And then, they formed what we know as the League of Nations, taking so many men (soldiers) out of each nation, and they would police the whole earth. That was good intentions, but it didn't work, because it wasn't God's program. Now, we've got what's called the U.N. and what it is setting in the U.N. with the guns on one another almost. It'll never work.
But there is something that, one time you can meet some a certain time and everything will be changed. That's when you meet God, and from that time you're a changed person. A man can meet God and say, "From that time..." You will never be the same after you meet Jesus Christ. Let me assure you that; you'll never, never be the same after you meet Jesus. Then you'd always refer back, "From that time..."

L-48 Let us interview tonight, some people who met God. Let's think of father Abraham. He was just an ordinary man. He came down with his father from Babylon, and dwelt in the valleys of Shinar, in the city of--of Ur, the land of the Chaldeans. He was nothing special; he wasn't any sainted person. He was just an ordinary man like you or I.
And one day... Perhaps he was a farmer out in the fields farming and--or something, and one day, he met God. He never had no more faith than any other man, but when he met God at the age of seventy-five years old, it changed his entire being; because he met God. God told him... Him being seventy-five years old, and he had married his half sister, Sarai; and that time, she was sixty-five years old. And God told Abraham that he was going to have a baby by Sarai.

L-49 Now, that would've been... If it would've been somebody would've walked up and told him (some of his associates) and said, "Abram, you are going to have a baby by Sarai, and she's going to bear a child, and you..."
Abraham would've laughed, and held his sides, and said, "Me, an old man like me? And my wife thirty years there--or twenty years a past menopause? And I've lived with her since she was seventeen years old; she's barren, and I'm sterile. And how can we ever have a baby, and me seventy-five and her sixty-five?" He'd have laughed in the face of his friend. But he met God. And from that time he called any thing contrary to it as though it wasn't. Amen. He'd met God.


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