<TITLE>03. Par 8-12</TITLE>L-8 So from here we go over to California to Lakespring--Lakeport, Lakeport, California, for next week. The following week we're up here at Yakima, Washington, one night in Tacoma, as we go through. Then on into Summer Shade, Kentucky, and on, on and on... And as soon as I can, I'll be going into Germany, and Switzerland, Africa, India, and down into Australia, and Melbourne, and Sydney, and New--and New Zealand, around over the world.
Be praying for me. I ask you one more favor. Will you pray for me while I'm gone (See?), till we meet. Will you pray for me? And I'll remember when the great challenges before the holy men in India, the witch doctors in Africa, in the great interior where Australia and around where those pagan heathens, they'll come right up and challenge you. And when they make their challenge, I'll be remembering that over in the Klamath Falls valley there's a group of people praying for me. And I--I'll know that God will hear your prayer. And I need your prayer. It's praying people that hold me up.

L-9 When I was a little boy, I had no home, as hardly you know. I don't mean that any disgrace to my father and mother, but you've read my life story. No one... I always loved people; I wanted people to love me. And no one would talk to me. I'd be standing on the street as a young man; someone come along, and I'd be talking to someone. If there was anyone else they could talk to, they'd get away, because of the background, my father drinking and moonshining, and so forth.
So I--I hate to say that, but it's--it's no... I'll trust... My daddy died in my arms giving God praise. So I--I--I trust that it doesn't reflect anything. But see, the truth... If it's bad about me, let me say it anyhow, because it's the truth. See? Just...

L-10 That's--that's the reason I believe the Bible. Being if I never read it but one time, or looked in It, when It talked about Lot living with his daughters and so forth like that, it don't pull no strings. It tells the truth. See? Now, when they say George Washington never told a lie, that's history. I don't know about that. But when it comes to This, It tells the truth. Whether it's good or bad, It tells it just the same.
That's the way we ought to be. It it's bad, it's going to be across the canopies of the sky someday, anyhow. So we might as well confess it now and say it's--that's the way it was. See? And then be honest. You never have... You can never serve God correctly till you get every little thing out of the way where you can stand free.

L-11 How can I walk out that door unless I understand and have a good knowledge that I can walk out that door? Then by faith, I walk out the door. See? That's the only way you can. If there's anything in your way hindering you, you just can't do it, because that thing raises right up in front of you all the time. See?
And so be honest, truthful; serve God with all your heart, laying aside every sin that easily besets you, that you might run with patience the race that's set before you, looking to the Author and Finisher of our faith, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's... Watch; He is our Example.

L-12 Now, if I put a stumbling block in your way, don't let that hinder your salvation with Christ. If your pastor, he's a man, if he puts a stumbling block, don't let that hinder at all. The thing you want to do is keep your faith on God and look to Jesus Christ as your Example. He is your Example, the perfect One.
Now, I... Each and every one of you, thanks again. And now, we're--we're designating this time this afternoon. Mostly, we had a altar call last night. And I trust that every precious soul that found the Lord Jesus in these meetings will take your membership with some of these churches, because they--they believe in this. They wouldn't be having me up here if they didn't believe in this ministry.


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