<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 And later on in years, not even thinking no more about ever marrying that child than I would some strange person setting out there, not that much. Her father and I were hunting partners together, and we was just raised up. Why, her... I'd... She'd probably fuss at me, and I'd slap her for a piece of candy. So that's the way it was, you know, when we just come up, kids. So we just growed up together like that, and I never thought about marrying her.
But I tell you: it was certainly a God-sent gift to me when I--when God gave me my wife. And thank you so much. And through there He's given me three lovely children.
And she taken Billy Paul over. And usually a mother, a stepmother, to come in, you know how it is about that. I can say this (She's not here, but it's true. Anyone knows. My neighbors are here.), that she loves that boy and just been... She's better to him than his--his mother. I seen his mother give him a spanking when he wasn't six months old, but Meda has never touched him at all.
Just--just... She ought to have done a little more maybe, or maybe it'd been different. She left it all up to me. Some people say they don't believe in spanking them, but you know the Scriptures says you'll--if you spare the rod you spoil the son, so I--I believe in correcting children, making them mind. If we had more of that, we wouldn't have too much juvenile delinquency.

L-6 Now, tonight is a Wednesday night, and we're just kind of... a little night when I wasn't expecting very many people in, because of churches. Tonight is prayer meeting night at the churches, and I'm very thankful for the audience. And it's a good thing that all don't come the same night, 'cause we would--couldn't do nothing with them. I said awhile ago, "How many is here, they said, that hadn't been in the meetings before?" And over half the audience. Last night there was two-thirds of them had never been in the meeting before, and it continues on.
Now, there's so many things that we could say. I believe last night, if I'm not mistaken, in my message last night speaking of--of... Forget what text I preached on last night. Something another I was bringing in about... Oh, "The Forgotten Beatitude." I believe that's Saint Matthew, the 11th chapter and the--the 6th verse, or something like that--11:6, the forgotten beatitude, and "Blessed is he who is not offended in Me."

L-7 I was preaching on how people become offended in Jesus. And John had become... He didn't express it that way, but kindly offended because that things didn't go just the way he thought it ought to. Because he'd introduced a Jesus with a, or Christ, the Messiah, with a fan in His hand, and purging the floor, and burn up the chaff; and when He come, He was real meek, and lowly, and gentle. And so he couldn't hardly understand what--what that was. Look like he had a let-down, and he was kind of a little bit of an offense.
Yet he'd saw the Messiahic sign and knowed that it was Him. So he sent disciples to find out if that was Him. Now, that was terrible to say a thing like that, but John was anointed with the spirit of Elijah, and Elijah almost had a nervous breakdown, too, you know, under the juniper tree. And here was John... As long as you're standing there giving it out, it's all right; but when you have to take it in, then it's a little different. See? So, John in jail, his eagle eye had filmed over.


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