<TITLE>10. Par 27-29</TITLE>L-27 I want to confess something. I was always a little afraid of dying. Even since I've been a Christian. Not so much as I was afraid I would be lost, but I--I did not want to be a--a spirit. And I always thought if we died, we'd have a spiritual body; and I'd meet you people up there, and I'd say, "Well, that's the people I preached to down at the Yakima. Oh, my, wished I had a hand to shake them, but my hand was rotting in the grave. Theirs is too." And if we have no senses at all. Just like a little white cloud, a spiritual body, form of a body, spiritual. And I don't like anything that's spooky. I just can't stand that. I--I--I don't like that at all. I'm just--can get away from that right quick. So I don't... I always dreaded that. I said, "I hope I live to see Jesus coming, because I knowed I'd return from there, and have a glorified body. But I--I wanted to know as I know now. So I can meet my brother and shake his hand, and have a wonderful time." I said, "If I can just live till Jesus comes, I wouldn't be a spirit; I would just be changed." I wouldn't have that time to go through.

L-28 And I always feared death because of that. About four weeks ago... No, beg your pardon, about seven weeks ago, I'd come in off of a meeting, and I was laying in my bed; and I'd woke up that morning, and I raised up, kindy put my hands... Which I sleep like that, behind my head, and laid against the foot board, or the headboard of the bed. And then, I said, "Well," I said, "honey, you awake?" to my wife, and she was sleeping away. And I said... I laid there a few moments, and I said, "Well, Bill, you're fifty years old." Best I know, I was born in Kentucky where they don't have a birth records. And you know what my birth mark is, birth record in Kentucky? The year the old stump blowed away up over on the hill. And that's all they knowed.
They say, "When was that child born?"
"Tomato picking time."
"What tomato picking time? When was this one born?"
"Corn cutting time."
"What corn cutting time?"
Now, that--that was the birth record up in the mountains of Kentucky. So I don't know how old I am, but anyhow, I--I'm--I'm ever bit of that. So then, a--so then when... That's what my mother told me, and I think she'd be pretty close to right. And so then, I said, "You're fifty years old, and you haven't done nothing for the Lord yet. You'd better hurry up, 'cause there may not be too much time left." I said, "Oh, I hope I live to see Him coming. I hate to be a spirit." I said, "I--I don't want to get out there, so I can't meet people." And I said, "I--I love the Lord." And--and just then...

L-29 How the Spirit works, as I told you the other night. These on the platform are visions, but they're little minor visions. You're making them yourself. You're using God's gift that He sent to the earth, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit works through a channel. How many knows that? How many knows even when you're speaking in tongues, it's the Holy Spirit making intercession? See? To you who's been gifted, and clean so He can speak through you. Well, then He had set in the church, apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists, and so forth. See? And He uses that channel. How I could stop here, and tell for--till the in the morning the things that's happened.


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