<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 By way of reading the Scripture, so we can get right into it... And that wonderful welcome that you people gave me, I'll never forget that. I'll never will. And I--I'd do anything for you. Sometimes I... Now, this is just kinda on us home folks here, as we say it down south. Sometimes you hear me cutting; and really I go home and set down, and sometimes pick up one of those tapes, and say, "Surely, I didn't say that. Surely, I couldn't have said that." And--and then I think, "Well, what I have said, I have said, and it was--it was under inspiration, as far as I know inspiration." So I'm never ashamed of it. And I--I don't mean to never hurt anyone. If that would be my--my motive, then my objective is wrong. See? I--I just--I--I wouldn't be... to do that.
But sometimes I get up there, think I'll read a text. I've got about five texts here I was going to speak on this morning. (You see?), and I--I said, "Well now, if I got thirty minutes, I'm going to speak on this." If I've got twenty minutes, I'll speak on this. I got a hour and a half, we'll speak on this. And so I got my thirty minute text here this morning. 'Course, I believe in multiplication, you know, if time went long enough, so...?...

L-6 Let us turn, if you'd like to, over in the book of Saint Luke, the 7th chapter and the--the 40th verse:
And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he said, Master, say on.
Knowing that the PA system is very bad, and I suppose you can hear me back in the back now all right? Our brother here set here, a worried look on his face, because his... watched him and felt sorry for him, and watched how that song picked him up awhile ago that sister was singing, and how that there's grace. We believe that--the amazing grace of Christ. And I thought maybe that this morning we'd speak on a subject that would be, maybe, just shortly, kind of a little drama more like, on "One of the Meanest Men in Town." Now, that's a quite a text to take at a business men's breakfast. But, maybe some people don't know just what a real mean man is. So we--we would like to talk about one.

L-7 The sun must've been going down when the courier arrived. It had been a great day, and Jesus had been praying for the sick, preaching. And, oh, the people gathered around just to hang on to one word that He said. I would've loved to have been there. I've often wondered how it would've been when I heard Him stretch out his arms, and say, "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden." I perhaps will never even live to see the day when they pick up the vibration to hear how it sounds. Then not knowing Hebrew, I would not be able to grasp it, but I do hope that day to hear Him say, "It was well done, My good and faithful servant."
And the crowds was restless, and many hadn't got prayed for. And they were wondering where He'd be the next day, because they didn't know one day from the other where He would--the Spirit would take Him. And the disciples were worn threadbare from pushing back the people, and saying, "If--if you'll just don't press; just be reverent, and our Master will get to you just soon as He can."


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