<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>61-0318, Abraham's Covenant Confirmed, National Guard Armory, Middletown, OH, 127 min
L-1 Thank you Brother Sullivan. You can be seated. Good to be out at the house of the Lord again tonight, this place which serves that purpose. And I am very grateful for this opportunity to minister again tonight.
Last night we had an exceedingly, abundantly great time. I did anyhow. The Lord poured out His blessings upon me till I couldn't sleep half the night. And then He... I was reading a little article, someone wrote me a letter and sent a little piece in the paper, and the Lord gave me of an outstanding thought on it. If He being willing, tomorrow afternoon I want to express it right here at the service, preach on it tomorrow afternoon on the afternoon meeting.
Now, we're having... The reason we are doing, having the afternoon meeting... Now, Brother Sullivan invited me up to fellowship with his people and you people here. And he opened it up in the armory, so it wouldn't altogether be in his church. I think that's real gentleman like. Don't you think so? Real brotherly.

L-2 Another thing we decided, that we thought it would be nice if we didn't have a Sunday night service, so that you people would not miss any of your regular services. You could have Sunday school and then also have Sunday night service. And some of you members of the churches, I wish you would express that to your pastor, if he isn't in the meeting, that that's the reason we do that. We are not here to try to hinder the cause of Christ. We are here to try to help the cause of Christ, trying to do all we can to cooperate together in every measure that we can to help the people.
And instead of Brother Sullivan just saying, "Well now, we'll just have it up to my church." why, he put it in the auditorium, and so that everybody could see that it wasn't selfish motive... And then, instead of having it on Sunday night, we make it Sunday afternoon, which is always a smaller crowd than Sunday afternoon then Sunday night. But we are not here for money. We are not here to see how many people we can attract; we are only here to try to put our part in for the kingdom of God to help everybody. That's what we're here for.

L-3 Now, this is off the record. And Brother Sullivan don't know I know this, but I know up to this time he's short on the finances of the meeting. Now, tomorrow afternoon will not be a love offering; it'll be an expense offering. And if the expenses isn't made tomorrow afternoon, I'll wire home immediately to the church and we'll pay every penny of it off before we leave this city. There'll not be nothing left, no debts we leave behind. We don't make... don't get the expenses tomorrow afternoon in the love offering... You make it a love offering to the Lord Jesus instead of me, so it can go to pay the debts. Now, Brother Sullivan was going to pay that himself, but he ain't going to do that. No, I ain't going to let him do that. No, we're going to do that ourself. And then if there isn't sufficient to finish the meeting, then I will find out and we will wire the money up here from our own church at Jeffersonville to finish the debt, to finish the... so everything is paid off: the chairs, the auditorium, and the advertisements, whatever it is, we will pay it all off, and see it's paid off. It won't be no... no more than right to the... to Brother Sullivan and the people.
Now, if you would I wished you would... if your pastor isn't here, if you'd invite the church to come out tomorrow afternoon; there'll be a prophetic message that I think that, seems to me that the Holy Spirit's laid upon my heart, after reading an article today that I should bring that message tomorrow.


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