<TITLE>02. Par 8-15</TITLE>L-8 My associates with me here, around... I see Brother Mercier, and Brother Roy Borders, and Brother Neville, and Billy Paul, my son; and Gene's here somewhere, and the brethren, Teddy and them. I appreciate all these people who come to help me.
I remember here not long ago, Brother Leo, a--a vision that he had--dream, he called it--one night when we first met, that he saw a great pyramid peak, way up in the air. And I was up there preaching somewhere, and he climbed up to see what it was all about. And when he got up there on top this peak, why, he said, way off in kind of a silver-looking light, like a platter, I was standing preaching to the people. And he attracted my attention, and I looked around to him, and he said, "How did you ever get out there? How could I get out there?"
I said, "Leo, no one can come out here. God has to take a man here. Now, you're not to come up here. You're to go down and witness to those people down there, after you've seen it, that it's the Truth, that that is the Truth." Leo climbs back down to witness to the people. How long ago has that been, Brother Leo? Several years, hasn't it? Several years. Since then, as far as I know, he's been faithful in doing that: witnessing to the people that the ministry comes from God. Now, and I--I do not want it to come from me. If it is from me, then it's no good, because there's no good in a man. See? It has to come from God.

L-12 Now, when I look around... And yesterday afternoon I shook hands with my friend Brother West. I haven't spotted him yet in the building. Yes, I have now--this morning. And you know how far the people drive? All the way from down in--in Alabama of a Sunday to get here, from way down in Alabama.
Brother Welch Evans, I missed him last Sunday. Somebody said he was here today. Them people drive from Tifton, Georgia, to be here. And Brother setting here, his partner. So many... Brother Palmer from Macon, Georgia. And I see, I believe, Sister Ungren and them back there. They're all the way from Memphis, Tennessee. Now, you think... And others from other places. Just met a lady in here from over--way over in South Carolina.

L-14 Now, you think that people here (I started looking, over from Chicago, just different places) driving hundreds and hundreds of miles just to attend a service. Then when they get here, no room to set down, not an air-conditioned room, an old hot building to stand in--wiping perspiration, taking the money from the table from their children to come here to listen to that message. You mean to tell me there's not a--beyond this serene somewhere that there's a place they're going one of these days? Sure there is. That's faithful. Those people are tithe payers. Not only do they come, they bring me their tithe and offerings, and bring it into the house of the Lord, trying to do what is right. God richly bless a loyal people like that. God's mercy and grace be with them.

L-15 I see my friend Charlie Cox and those from down in southern Kentucky. And just everywhere you look around, you see people from different places.
This young man setting here, I can't call his name. I met him in Chicago. But you're from some Bible school away from here somewhere, aren't you? Springfield, Missouri, Assembly of God Bible School. Yeah, well fine. You see, they just come from everywhere in this little bitty old church.
Just think, about--around thirty years ago when I laid the cornerstone that morning, I was standing over there on Seventh Street, one block away. I wasn't even married yet, just a young man. And I seen a vision of the people packed and jammed in here from everywhere. And I was so happy, standing behind the pulpit. And that's when He told me, "But this is not your tabernacle." And He set me down under the skies. And you know the rest of the story which is wrote on the leaf of the Bible laying in the cornerstone there.


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