<TITLE>02. Par 7-11</TITLE>L-7 And I was a--was thinking... Oh... Then if you got friends like that, that wants to stand by you... Now, if... Them people doesn't come all the way from Georgia, and Ohio, and different parts of the nation to this little tabernacle here to hear me. They're coming here because they believe that Message. That's what they believe. They're believing that Message. And then how honest and sincere must I be about that Message. Because not--not only myself, am I going wrong, but I'm leading someone else wrong. See? And then God's going to hold me responsible for their error, because I was the one who taught it. See?
And I tell you; it certainly makes you think deep when you go to thinking in terms like that. So I--I appreciate every one of you: so fine to know that you'd drive those hundreds of miles through hazardous roads, and over these super highways where accidents and things. Your faith in God steers you through somehow, brings you here and takes you back. We're so glad to have friends of that type. And I pray God's rich blessings upon you.

L-9 Now, last Sunday I--I said, "Well, we're going to speak and then I'll just call a prayer line." I've been trying to work out some way to try to find a way to pray for more of the people. And if I run many more like last Sunday, I--somebody'd be praying for me. I got away from here nearly two o'clock. And, I--I--I didn't give out prayer cards.
Giving out prayer cards is a rough job. I don't know whether you know it or not; the people hate you. And Brother Banks Wood said the other day while we were down in Kentucky, that he would volunteer and give out prayer cards if Billy didn't come in. So Billy, being my own son, you know, why they... I get a few letters, "He promised me a prayer card, and he didn't give it to me, the little rat." So they... He can't give them to everyone. And we can't get too many in the line. See, he's got to protect me.

L-11 And--and when we left, my daughter-in-law said, "Bill, you'll have to get Billy back in there with prayer cards, or," said, "you won't last very long."
And so... But where I made the mistake was starting the discernment, and then someone come back and say, "I forgot, mother wanted to be prayed for." You know what they're coming back for. It's for that discernment. You see? So... But I don't blame them. I'd do the same thing. See? I'd do just... We're human, and we all want to live, and we want to know what to do. That's what we're... But you can only get so far with those things, you--of a gift, and then you're just about washed up, when a couple of times that happens.
And so, Brother Banks was going to give out the prayer cards this morning, and Billy happened to come in last night. So I--I thought that'd be awful to have a man with a good reputation and things like Brother Wood to give out prayer cards: get people down on him. I guess Billy don't mind. He's just had them down on him so long, so he just lets it go. All right.


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