<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>61-0411, But It Wasn't So From The Beginning, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, 126 min
L-1 So it's just like a man's got money in the bank but he don't know how to write a check. And the other one can write a check and has got no money in the bank. If you could ever get those two together you'll have it.
If Pentecostal people could only realize that they're not the scum of the earth, they are sons and daughters of God, heirs of all things through Christ. But as long as Satan can keep you afraid to claim your inheritage, then he's got you. See? As long as you are afraid of it... Don't be afraid of any Word that God wrote, for just hang your faith on any punctuation that's in There because It's right. It's exactly right. And then just move on. If you can't see where you're going, as long as you are following the Word, move anyhow.

L-2 Like Abraham, he did... He never staggered at the promise of God through unbelief. He was strong all the time, giving praise to God, knowing it was going to happen anyhow. See? And we're the children of Abraham. Lord willing, that's what I want to speak to you on Sunday afternoon: "Abraham and His Seed After Him." And we are hoping to have a great healing service Sunday afternoon.

L-3 I think it is very nice. It's my request always that when there's many churches sponsoring, let's not have a Sunday night service so that we get our brethren, our people away from their churches and things. I think every person ought to be at your post of duty when your church is open. That's correctly. That's exactly. You should stand by your pastor, and stand by your board, and stand by your church, and... But when we are having a union meeting like this, if we can have it Sunday afternoon then every person can go back to their church maybe all charged up with something someone said, or a testimony, or something the Lord's done, or a hymn, or a sermon, or something. And--and I think then we can just keep moving on like that.

L-4 And I... For money, I have never desire... I am fifty-two years old the other day and I have been in the ministry, in almost thirty one years I never took an offering in my life. Never took one offering in my life, and I never intend to. So I used to work. I pastored the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville for seventeen years without one cent, worked as a state game warden, line work, whatever I could get to do, and paid my own way, and helped build the church. And I do not believe that--that... I'm not in for a lot of this big money program.
And what if I had to get up as much money as some of the brethren have to? What if I had to meet the expenses of Billy Graham? What if I had to meet the expenses of Oral Roberts? I could never come to a small place like this and have a meeting. But I like to keep myself where I have no expenses, and then wherever the Lord leads me I can go. See? I am under no obligations.

L-5 I just held a revival in a church that held twenty people. It was--it was awful but we held it, and the Lord blessed and done a great thing. People stood in zero weather crying and snubbing and breath froze on their face. But they got saved, so what's the difference as long as they get saved? And I don't have any money, I guess my... If I'd check my account tonight and it... If I'm not in the red I can't be over about a hundred-and-fifty dollars.
So what would I do with that where perhaps Mr. Roberts has to meet around seven, or eight, ten thousand dollars a day. Oh, I wouldn't have that on me for nothing. My, oh, my, God knowed better than that. He knowed I ain't... I haven't got that much mental powers to take care of stuff like that. I--I just couldn't do it. I'm so thankful that God has men that He... to do that.


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