<TITLE>28. Par -</TITLE>L-686-209 Sometimes you might be turned loose for a little while to see what you'd do, but you'll always if you've got the nature of a dove, you cannot eat crows' food. That's all, it just won't digest; that's all.
Where would you go, what would you do? Tell me what you would do if you were--if you were not a Christian. Tell me what I'd do this morning if I wasn't a Christian. What could I do this morning and my mother laying out there in the hospital in that condition and unconscious as she is and laying there, and in my heart I could stand here in the pulpit and preach, and go on the way I do, seem like I don't pay much attention to it? Because I know my mother's saved. See? I know she's saved. I know Who I believed; I'm persuaded He's able to keep that which I committed to Him against the day.

L-687-211 What would mama do now? Now, maybe she'd had good intentions all of her life, that "Someday I'm going to be a Christian." But how could she be now when she's laying there unconscious? How could she become a Christian now? What would her children do?
The other day when we put her--taken her out there to give her glucose out there... That's the only thing she's has in her body is glucose. She can't swallow; she's paralyzed. And she said, "This one thing I want you to know, Billy," She talked about me and Delores standing there, and about her children and things, and a couple of my brothers drinking.
And I said, "Well, they broke your heart."
He said--she said, "But, Billy, that all goes in the wheel for a mother." She said, "But I'm saved." And she said, "I'm ready to go."
I said, "Mama, you might've left us a home that reached all the way from Jeffersonville to Utica, a palace; you might've left us ten million dollars to fuss and fight over after you were gone (That's all that would happen to it.); but, mama, you leave us the greatest treasure that anybody could leave, the--the assurance that we'll see you again in that land beyond the river." That's right. See?

L-687-214 You're saved, and I'm so glad to know that Christ saves our... But we may backslide; we may do wrong; we all have our ups and downs; but in your soul as soon as you do anything, well, there's something goes wrong in you; you know it is. Now, right there is the time to jump. That's the time to jump. Get away from it.
Now, say you go out here today, and--and somebody comes up to you and say, "Hey, they tell me you're one of them holy-rollers."
Right quick, Satan says, "Slap him down." See?
"I don't know about being a holy-roller; I'm a Christian." See? And always with evil, meet evil with good. And remember, now just take this; remember this, when you meet evil with good, evil cannot stand in the presence of good. It cannot do it.

L-688-217 Now, I'm a missionary, and I been around the world, in all kinds of evils, and all kinds of spiritualists, and isms, and all kinds of devil worship, and, oh, everything could be thought of, where there's everything, and I've always found that right always conquers wrong.
Listen, I don't care how dark the night is; it might be so dark till you could feel it; you could put you hands up like this and couldn't see a shadow of no type. The least little bit of light will expose that darkness. Certainly, that's the way life does in the presence of death. That's the way right does in the presence of wrong. That's the way faith does in the presence of doubt; it scatters it away.

L-688-219 How can the night stay here when the sun shine through, blessings through? Where does the night go to? It's no more. What happened to the night? Where is that darkness in this tabernacle about twelve hours ago? Where is that darkness that was concealed inside of these walls here? It is no more. It vanished. Why? Light came in. And when light came in, darkness had to go, Yes, sir.


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