<TITLE>05. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 Listen my brother, sister, may be our last time meeting. No one, there's no one in this world will ever know what I went through. That's right. You can't explain it. You can't explain God. And you set in the meeting, not in here, but many times you talk a few minutes to find, here's critics over here. Here's a doubter. Here's one superstitious. Here's one, a--a devil possessed setting there. And all that. You feel that coming against you like a breath.
And then you've got... See, there's a godly saint setting there trying to find God. Here's another one is wondering and doubting. Here's a little baby, dying. Here's one that's cross-eyed. Here's a daddy setting here with cancer. God... And then all that by the thousands, meeting you at one time. You don't realize how it tears you to pieces. See?
And there... And just think, Satan's waiting for one little crooked word, somewhere. That's all. See? And knowing that you're human, you have to completely rely upon Jesus Christ, just completely throw your life to Him.
Now, in the Scriptures of Saint Matthew, the 14th chapter, and the 27th verse. We read this.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer, it is I; be not afraid.
Now, I wish to take that for a text. "It Is I." "It Is I," three words.

L-12 And now, I want us tonight, so we can hurry, to attend a testimony meeting. You like testimonies? We all do. And would you not liked to have lived in the days of the apostles, and set down somewhere on a log out by the lakeside, and heard those apostles testify? How many would like to have heard that, just heard them together, those who walked with Jesus?
And surely if they walked with Him and knew Him, they would know how to testify about Him. Don't you believe that? Sure. They would know how... His life, they knowed just what He was. And remember, they were not Angels now, they were men that had their ups-and-downs just like we do.

L-13 Many time people thinks when a ministry becomes supernatural, they think that person ought to wear a robe, clothes, and--and touch me not, and you know. When a person acts like that, they're trying to be something that they're not. God uses men, just ordinary men.
When you see a person like that, to me it's a stuffed shirt (See?), somebody trying to be something they're--they're not: "Holier than thou art, not touch me. I..." That... Oh, God can't use that; you know that.

L-14 So we're... God... I'll say this one thing: some of the finest old hearts that I ever shook a hand under--beat under an old blue patched shirt (That's right.), real pair of steel gray eyes, look you in the face and say, "Preacher, I believe it." Brother, you can depend on that. Mark it down. Callous from plow handles or something, that's right... You don't have to have on a tuxedo coat and your collar turned around to be a Christ-fearing Christian. No. It's not what you wear; it's what you are inside, what makes you, not how smart you are but how much you are on the inside. To us there's none of us any good. If there's any goodness about us, "There's only one good and that's God," Christ said.

L-15 But I'd like to go to a testimony meeting. And just set down and get me a seat and hear the apostles testify. Oh, I've always thought, I'd love to do that. Now, I've always thought I'd like to hear Jesus when He said--stretched forth His loving arms and said, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
Oh, you know they got so... They claim, if a voice has ever spoke (you know it more than I do), a voice, it never dies. It lives on, like radium, goes on, and on, and on, like a pebble dropping in the water. The little waves carry on and on for miles, vibrations till you cannot see them with your natural eye. But they're carrying on and on and on.
And your air... When you speak, that's where you get on electronics and the--the radio that air wave, it goes on. It never dies.


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