<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>60-0720, Be not Afraid, It Is I, Lake County Fairgrounds, Lakeport, CA, 108 min
L-1 I have been called an extremist, so I suppose I am by my travel too.
I think the last time I was here at Lakeport, it was too cold. I'll hit it right one time, if I just keep trying. In the midst of all this, I am more than delighted to say I'm happy to be here at Lakeport again tonight. Since I heard that I was coming, why, I've looked forward to this time.
Small city, way back here in the mountain, but some of the nicest people I ever met in my life, just good, what I call right down to earth people. And to have fellowship like that, with such people, makes you feel real good.
The... Brother Folst was just telling me...

L-2 Last evening when I come in, why, I was... First motel I came to, why, I thought, "This is the place I'm to stay." And so, I went in, and sure enough it was. And I--I signed the little card there that I'd be staying there. And...
When I got up this morning, I thought, "Well, I'd better go down and see what this place is worth." When I heard what it was worth, I changed places right then.
And Brother Folst just told me, said, "But we want you to be comfortable."
I said, "Brother, with a price like that, I'd rather camp out under a cedar tree out here." Yes, sir. I... No matter, if the church's people are willing to pay it, it's not Christian to--to do such things as that. No, sir. I'd rather have a little place that's just--just clean, and that's all is necessary, than take something the--the church has to pay something like that. No. I--I don't--I don't like that of Christian Business Men, rather.
I want to greet them, and say I'm certainly happy that--thankful that the Lord has given me favor with them that they'd invite me back. This is kind of a little coincident, I suppose. I'm supposed to be in Germany now. And I... Under difficult, I couldn't get away to go overseas, so I had to take this month and next for the services. And I just come out here to visit you fine people here, to pray for the sick, and to minister and see if I can get someone to accept our lovely Lord Jesus.

L-3 Just had a vision, or something happened to me a few weeks ago. Maybe a little later in the service I can tell you about it. And I have never felt the same and will never feel the same about it any more. I'm... I hope I'm not acting as a fanatic, but I'm sure that I saw heaven. And I--I never want to miss that. And I want to get every soul that I can to go there. I--I've always... There was a little fear of what would happen to me between the time I died and then Jesus coming.
I always thought I'd have a spirit body. I never liked anything spooky like that. I just can't stand that. So I... It always scared me. But the other morning at my home, something happened. And my wife there, and my children, and all, and I went not very far, just a little ways away, and I seen literally millions that I've preached to, all young, and healthy, and never to die. And they put their arms around me. And I looked back and seen myself laying on the bed, and I--I thought, "Is this..." It was just perfect. It's just something that I... When I knowed that I had to come back, I was very sorry. I said, "Surely I don't have to leave now." And people that I knowed had been saved as much as being around ninety years old 'fore they were saved, they were young and beautiful and calling me their brother.
I... If that's it, I--I'm ready to go any time. It's a... no weary. But then I realized what the Bible meant when It said, "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting."
If you believe me to be His servant, friends, that's the truth. Ever where it was. I do not know whether I was in this flesh or whether it was out of it. I don't mean to be impersonating the great Saint Paul. But wherever It is, may God grant that every one of you will be there. It's--it's nothing... I'm never seen or had any vision or anything like that. It just changed my life.


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