<TITLE>11. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 I been kindly hard on the women, but... I don't mean you Christian women, I mean those who act like you're Christians and not (See?), wants to be Jezebel (No, sir), after the things of the world. I certainly bear down on them. And I just have to do that, I can't help that. But you have to have a bad one to make a good one shine out. You have to have a night to appreciate the daylight. Have to have wrong to appreciate the right. All working together to God's good, His glory. You're on a battlefield not a picnic ground.
Battle... Everybody say, "Come, be a Christian. Everything will go right." No, sir, it doesn't for a Christian. "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. You got to be laughed at, and made fun of, stomped at, kicked at, made fun of. "If they called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of His disciples."
"I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few, I started in with Jesus, Oh Lord, take me through." That's right. That's my... that's my... that's my alternative is to go through.

L-35 If I only look down tonight and look here in this city, look for the last three months where I've been across the nation and see the falling away of the churches, the indifference of the pastors, see the indifference amongst the people who come out. Look like fish and loaves. And the first little thing, got enough temper to fight a buzz saw, and indifferent, nasty: the Pentecostal people. Ministerial association wants to draw me out of the ring just because I let a man on the platform that wasn't baptized the way they thought he ought to be baptized. And they... oh, such indifference.
If I was looking right here, I--I'd give up. I'm glad God got a hold of me before the church did...?... I found out about God. That's right. Found out that God was real.

L-36 Mr. Baxter, once, Ern Baxter, used to manage the campaigns for me. He said up in Canada, they were... one time there was a contest to win a new Schwinn bicycle. They had a board that was a foot wide. They had to ride it for fifty or a hundred yards, setting about three foot in the air. And every one of them there were champions. Ernie said, "I could go downtown, and get my mother's groceries, put them under my arms, and come through the street cars, up around the cars and never touch my handlebars." Said, "I could ride. Set backwards on it and ride the same as he could forward." Said, "It didn't make any difference me." And nearly all of them was champions. And they was sure they was going to win that Schwinn bicycle.
And they had one little sissy fellow among them. He wasn't too good a rider. They knowed he wasn't going to win. But when they put them all on the track and start them out, every one of them fell off but this one little sissy boy. He rode her out to the end. Got off. Received the reward, took the bicycles. And all the fellows got around and said, "Tell us how you done it."
Said, "Boys, I'm going to tell you where you made your mistake." Said, "I thought it all out before I got on there." That's a good idea. He said, "You see, you all were trying like this to keep the bicycle on the board looking right down like this at your bicycle. It made you nervous. You got to wiggling; you fell off. And I seen where you made your mistakes." He said, "I never looked what was down here. I just watched the end and kept steady." That's it. That's it! Watch the end and keep steady! Just keep moving on.
I'd be discouraged tonight if it wasn't for that: I'm watching the end, just keeping steady. Move on no matter what takes place. Just keep... Don't look at that. Just keep looking at the end. That's where you meet God down there at the end. There's where the rewards are give out. Don't drop off here. Go on to the end. "He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved." Scripture.


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