<TITLE>10. Par 84-90</TITLE>L-84 All year she worked, slaving, saved her little seventy-five-cents, whatever they give here for her wages a day. And she was saving up her money to buy her wedding gown to make everything ready. Oh, that was all of her thoughts, making ready. And he has... ("She has made Herself ready.") She got her clothes, her wedding clothes, while her cousins laughed at her and made fun of her.
Finally it come to the finally the day. She dressed herself in her wedding garment (Oh.), got all ready and cleaned up. And her little cousins come around and bowed by her and said, "Well, you silly little thing. Why, you know he didn't mean that. He wouldn't speak to a--or marry a girl like you." But she made herself ready anyhow.

L-86 So it come along late in the evening, and they begin to mock and make fun of her. She stood right at the door, waiting, anyhow. And so she... He said, "What time did he say he'd be here?"
Said, "He didn't say." But said, she told--he told me the night that he marry--that he gave me the engagement ring. He said, he told me, "It would be about one year from now." Therefore I've got a hour left." Amen, just kept waiting. "I got one hour left, thirty minutes left, ten minutes left." And they laughed, and made fun of her, and called her everything.
But finally, right at that crucial hour, they heard the sand turning under the wheels, the horses a coming. What a thing it was to see that little bride that made herself ready, jump out of the door, and run down through the rose-covered trellis out there, to fly into the arms of the man that she loved, and to be her husband, to pick her up in like that, and be married and ride away.

L-89 Some of these days, brother, those who are making fun and saying, "holy-roller and--and Pentecostal," and things like that... We're waiting; we still got a little time. They say, "Aw, there's no difference what there ever was." Don't worry, we got a little time left. And at that moment that He promised, He'll be here. And some of these days we'll take a flight and go away. Just be ready. Keep the wedding garment on. Keep all cruel out of your heart. Everything that...

L-90 Listen how this Scripture reads here:
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. (Get it?)
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. (Praise be to God.)
And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me. These are the true sayings of God.
So there's going to be a meeting in the air one of these days, in that sweet, sweet by-and-by. Just stay ready. Keep yourself ready. Purge your heart from all evil thinking. Have faith in God, no matter how dark it looks and how many laughs and makes fun and says you've made a mistake. Keep right on living holy and living for God. Just keep moving on; the hour will arrive.


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