<TITLE>22. Par 79-81</TITLE>L-79 As you know, it's just offhand, then you--you start talking, and I'm a great person to take too much time on anything. And here, you notice my technique in preaching, that's the reason I keep you there all day (You see?), nearly. I just preach too long.
But did you notice Billy Graham? Now, Billy Graham's a trained preacher. And he's a great man. And Billy Graham, he will set his text right there. He will back off out here and just keep hammering at that text, just constantly all the time. He will never let his voice drop, hardly, just keep hammering into that text. See?
That's the way the Holy Spirit has him preaching. See? That's his technique of doing it. That's the way he does it.
Charles Fuller, many of you has heard him. He is a wonderful old man. And so, Charlie Fuller is a, like Bible expositor. He's a--he likes to--to teach and to--how he goes about things, you know. And everything, he just lays it in Christ, and a great old teacher. You notice what he does. He doesn't preach; he just teaches it.

L-80 Well now, if you notice, the little simple way that I have it. I set a text out here, whatever my text is. And I go way back out here and get my context. I bring it over here and lay it right in line with my text. And then go back over here and get something else. And bring it over here, and lay it down over here. Then I go back over here and get something else, till I get it all down here to right, and then drive it home on my text, just all at one time.
The reason I used to have these little old sermons... I used to try to preach. 'Course, you've been around me long and know I'm not a preacher. But like, "Believest Thou This?", "Speak To The Rock.","Come See A Woman," and all like that, you know, just little three words. Just... I'd build it all around about the woman at the well and what it was. And then hit right down at the last, then see, "Come See A Man. Come See A Man," then "Speak To The Rock." I take Israel and bring them out, and see, I get my context, and put it over here in line with my text, never hit my text yet.

L-81 And you noticed awhile ago in splaining--explaining that just awhile ago, same thing. On that Roman there (See?), saying, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved." See, that's a question, being saved. See, I went back, and got what all that was, and pulled it out, and went back, and got Job, and all of them, pulled it over here in--in the road, and then drive it down. That's what it is; it's faith. You see? Job used faith. The Roman used faith. We're ready to use faith and everything. See, just...
And I think that way if I, in doing it to my way, if I could get the people interested enough to listen to what you're trying to build to, then save your main text here for the last point, and then drive it in. Then say... Oh, the rest of it opens up. 'Cause you see, you see it.
See, you just--you reach over here, and got a loose line, and pull this one in. And--and trouble of it is, I leave too many loose lines, so I--that I don't get.


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