<TITLE>05. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 Now, I'm not trying to get your address, for--for I have no programs at all. I have nothing, no programs. We have books, but them books, we buy them from somebody else to bring them to the meeting. I have no radio, no television, no nothing else. I'm not under obligation to nothing or nobody but God. 'Cause I can go to a church, little or big. I don't have to have any certain amount of money; there's nothing designated. I'm fifty-one years old, been preaching thirty-one years and never took a offering in my life. That's right. I--I--no money hooked into it at all. People give me little things so I can live by--and help support the ministry, which is appreciated. That goes into a foundation at my church. Myself, I get one hundred dollars a week for my living. And outside of that, well, that's all I have. And that--that's all I need.
And I--I don't believe that the Gospel of Christ was ever made to commercialize. I believe that it's not to be done. And I do not believe that--that servants of Christ should try to be showmen. I believe they're supposed to be humble, take the place of Christ, Who--we--His life in us, represents Him to the public.

L-15 Now, we find out that He said, "The foxes have holes and dens, and the birds have nests; but the Son of God doesn't have a place to lay His head." He didn't have to be that way. I think the sweetest word in the Bible, one of them, "Father, I sanctify Myself for their sakes." He had a right to a wife; He had a right to a home. He had a right to the--the pleasures of life, like we have, the comforts of life at least. But He was sanctifying Himself because He was training twelve men that would stir the world with the Gospel. And if He could do that, how much more ought we to sanctify ourself. See? Now, let's--just one more word to Him before we approach the Word of the Author; let's approach Him once more in prayer.

L-16 Lord, it's Your Word, we pray that You'll make it real to us tonight. Now, we know that It's written, that, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." And as we read Thy Word, we know It will not fail. Our words will fail because we are mortal and we're finite. But Thou art infinite and the immortal eternal God. And as I approach Thy Word, I approach it under that type of faith, that Your Words cannot fail. And if I read this Word, then if the people who have gathered here tonight go home, they can at least say they heard something eternal because it was Your Word.
Then, Father, if the Gospel came not only by the hearing of the Word, faith came by that, but the Gospel was to manifest or demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit that's in the Word. For "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Then we're taught over in the Book of Hebrews that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, cutting asunder, even to the marrow of the bone. And the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. The intents of our heart and mind, the Word of God can reveal it. Because the living Christ, who is the living Word, comes into our living souls, reveals the secret of the heart, for He is the Word. Let the Word speak, Father, and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable unto Thee, O Lord. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.


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