<TITLE>02. Par 7-13</TITLE>L-7 Now, oh, this is such a--been such a wonderful week. I just don't know how to express myself to God and to you people for this wonderful week. These have been some of the happiest eight days that I ever preached in my life. That is true. I have--I have learned so much of the Lord and His tender mercy, and all that He's done for us, and to see His Spirit working back in the church. I'm so glad to see the gifts begin to operate back in the church again. See?
Now, once there, when you're away, it just seems like somebody will actually enter in, will just--just pollute it, you know, they'll just start doing anything. And when you dishonor those gifts, God will dishonor you. See? That's right. You've got to make them right. And the way we want it is just when it's in order, the way they're speaking with tongues, not just quoting the Scripture, but telling something that's fixing to take place. And if--if you'll just keep being real reverent with that, it'll begin that... If anyone gets out of order in a church, the Holy Spirit will speak it right out and tell them who it is. And that they'll--they'll feel chastised and go to the altar. That's what those gifts are for.

L-9 And to see our pastor here, Brother Neville, he was a bashful, backward sort of a boy. And I tell you; he was--looked like he was never going to take ahold of it when it come to Pentecost. But to see him stand up and interpret tongues and prophesy, I tell you, he's come a long way. Right. Let us pray for our pastor.
And see the gifts begin to come in church. And another little, humble brother here, he's here, ought to be here somewhere. I guess he is; he's always is. He's a very humble little guy, used to be one of the trustees here at the church, Brother Higginbotham, a precious, godly man. And to see that he has receive the gift of speaking in tongues, who'd have ever thought that Brother Higginbotham would've done that? A bashful, backward little fellow, didn't want to be known by nowhere, staying back. But see, God can take a man like that and use him (See?), 'cause he don't want to do it in the first place. If he wanted to do it, he might come out a stuffed shirt. But as long as he comes out where he don't want to do it, maybe God can use him like that.
Junie's here, oh, he's behind the post from me.

L-12 I'll say this. I've heard many people speak in tongues. And I think it all comes from God, because you cannot make a sound without it meaning something to somebody, somewhere. You know, the Bible says there's not a sound without a significance; means that there's not a sound without it means something. You can't make any kind of an utter 'less it means something. I often wondered how that would be till I went to Africa and heard all them noises, and I found out then that it was somebody's voice. Sometimes it's an Angelic voice and so forth.

L-13 But Junie Jackson, a bashful, backward, little timid, country preacher out there in the Methodist church, way down--down around Elizabeth, Indiana, way back in the backwoods, quiet, wouldn't say nothing, kind of backward, and looked like... I'd see him sometimes, I want to take him, shake him, say, "Say something, Junie, just quit setting there looking at me like that."
We'd set down on a stump out in the woods, and he'd set there and say, "Well,... I guess... it's all right."
I'd say, "O Junie, I--I feel like; let me say it for you, you see. You're--you're too slow for me. See?" And God gave him a--a--a gift of speaking in tongues; I never heard any more plainer language in all my life. See?


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