<TITLE>02. Par 12-19</TITLE>L-12 But when you persuade and pull and scare people, and talk people in... People must come sanely, soberly, under conviction, and receive Christ. Then the first thing they do as soon as they receive Christ setting in their seats, the next thing is to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of those sins that they have been convinced that they're wrong. That's how they're remitted of their sins. See? 'Cause they have repented; been baptized as a memorial to the people, that, "I have received Christ as my personal Saviour"; then you're a candidate for the Holy Ghost.
But now, many people continue on, persuading and calling to the altar, and so forth like that, which that's all right. I'll go with that; that's perfectly all right as far as I'm concerned, anybody that wants to do it. But to me it's not Scriptural (You see?), and so I--I just like to stay with the Scripture.

L-14 And therefore the reason I held that tape up was because you'd get that out we'd have five hundred letters a week to answer back. Every... Just step on a little tradition somebody's got, and that's all you have to do, then it's all go over again.
And I think, a lot of times, that I am a little too critical upon different things like that. And I don't mean to be that way, but sometime offices pull you that way (You see?); they--they make you lean that way. And so I'm sure the people understands that.

L-16 Now, we are very grateful that we still have a kind heavenly Father Who--Who looks over our mistakes and doesn't reckon them to us.
I was reading over in the Book of--of Romans the 4th chapter, where Paul wrote the--the Divine commentary of the life of Abraham. Now, we know that Abraham many times got kind of flusterated like we do. But when the--his commentary was written, there wasn't any of his flusterations mentioned (You see?), never mentioned them at all, said:
Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong... giving praise to God;
See, and that's the way I hope mine will be wrote down in there, is not my mistakes and everything, but just what I try to do, the intention of my heart to do for God's people.

L-19 And now, we have come this morning to--to try to bring a little message here that maybe the Lord has laid upon us to give to the people. And hoping that it'll do you good and do me good, 'cause we are together and living in a tremendous time, and the last days. So just before we have prayer, I'd like to read a couple places in the Word: one before prayer, and one after prayer. And first, to open up our service or this part of It, I wish to read out of the Book of Hebrews the 11th chapter of Hebrews, and the 30--32nd verse, beginning, talking about faith.
Now what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon... of Barak... Samson... Jephthae... David... Samuel, and of other prophets:
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promise, stopped the mouth of lions,
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, and out of weakness... made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the alien--the armies of the aliens.
Women received their dead raised unto life... and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
And others had trials... cruel mockings... scourging, yea, moreover of bonds... imprisonments:They were stoned, they were sawed asunder, they were tempted,... slain with the sword:... wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute,... and tormented;
Watch this parenthesis.
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in the mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
... all these, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.


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