<TITLE>10. Par 69-75</TITLE>L-69 Watch them prophets and God there foretelling those things, brother, it ought to raise the hair on the back of our necks to know that we're in the end time. We're at the end. There's nothing left. All these things happening just as He said they would, why, it ought to encourage us, make us get ready. He said, Jesus warned us, said, "When you see these things coming to pass," like we're talking about, said, "lift up your head; your redemption's drawing nigh."
And what would it do us any good if we gained the whole world? We're going to lose it anyhow. We--we can't win like that. There's only one winning; that's through Christ. Take Christ, then you're bound to win. You've got to leave here; you may leave before this service is over; you may leave before the sun sets tonight. You may go before it rises in the morning. Before next Sunday you may be gone, all of us. We don't know when we're going, but you know you've got to go. So isn't it a foolish thing to put it off? You're--you're tramping; you're--you're flirting with death.

L-71 Like the old toboggan slide. You used to get on a toboggan and go around this thing, see how close they'd come; and all at once, before they know it, down the slide they went; that's just the way you're doing, just sliding right around. You don't know what minute something's going to upset you, and you're gone: heart stop, automobile accident, just anything happen, and you die. And then your eternal destination lays right ahead of you. Think of that, friends.

L-72 "Now, when you see the abomination that maketh desolation standing in the holy place..." Now... Then in the days of the coming of Titus after Jesus had left, the Holy Spirit was that Man with the inkhorn at His side. And He went through Jerusalem and set a mark upon the people. And now, I want you to notice something, church member: And you claim to have the Holy Spirit? He said, "Don't seal any of them but them that sigh and cry for the abominations that's done in the city." Now, where's anybody so burdened about the world now and their condition?
Well, "I'm Methodist. I'm Baptist, Presbyterian, so what difference does it make?" they say.
Oh, not that constant burden for the lost, that sweetness. Don't never let anything rise up and put bitterness in your soul. No matter how bad anyone ever treats you or anything, don't never... Don't be guilty of letting that thing anchor in your soul. It'll grieve the Holy Spirit away from you. It certainly will.

L-75 I remember saying something here two or three years ago that was wrong. It was attorneys that called me, and I went and... My wife setting there. I'd... My head...?... feel like it's coming off, and I--I went back. And they called on the phone and said, "Tell him come down this afternoon."
And Meda said, "It's the attorneys."
I slipped outside the door; I said, "Tell him I'm not even here."
She said, "Bill."
And I said, "Tell him I'm not in here right now." And I went out. Then I got out there and felt real bad and come back. She told him; I seen it hurt her.
I went out to pray for... There was a man come in here, had a little sick baby. And just as I started to put my hand on that baby and pray for it, Something said to me, "You're a hypocrite." See? "You know what you did."
And I said, "Sir, I'm not worthy to pray for your baby. (See?) The Holy Spirit's grieved in me, and there's no need in me putting my hands on the baby. You just wait till I go make something right."
I went down and told the--told my attorney; I said, "I--I did wrong."
He said, "I thought you was gone."
I said, "No." I said, "That was... I caused my wife to say something that was wrong." I said, "I'm--I'm sorry, I--I didn't--I didn't mean to do that." I said, "Will you forgive me for it?"
And asked the wife to forgive me for it.


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