<TITLE>17. Par 70-73</TITLE>L-70 I said, "I found out there's about nine hundred different churches (See?), each one pulling this way, and that way. Just as..." I said, "I could base no faith upon that. I could not do it, mama. Therefore, I didn't take any of them. But I went back, and I found out what the constructions was, what God laid down (the instructions, rather, what the instructions was to be done), and I taught it just exactly the way the apostles taught it, and I got the same results." I said, "Now, that's it. See? That's it. I took God's Word and just laid it out like that."
And she said, "Billy, I'm resting on that."

L-71 And when the poor old thing couldn't even speak no more, I said, "Mother..." I wanted to commit her soul to God. I did my father, and I wanted to commit her soul to God. And she was laying there, she could no more speak.
I said, "Mother, I'm standing here yet. You know it? If you can, bat your eyes." And she'd bat her eyes. I said, "I want to ask you something now, mother. You're just a few minutes away now." I said, "I want to stand here to see Jesus come get your soul." And I said, "Then I'll commit it to Him."
I said, "I want to ask you something, mother." I said... Now, I baptized my mother about thirty years ago, and she was filled with the Holy Ghost. And--and she was a Christian, a real saint of God.
And I said, "Mother, does Jesus mean right here when you've got maybe five more minutes to live--does Jesus just as sweet to you as He was the day you received the Holy Ghost?" I said, "Mother, I want to say this for my own, so I can tell others. Is He just as sweet right now? You're my mother. You wouldn't tell me anything wrong. I want to know how you feel right now. Is He just as sweet as He was when you received Him back yonder thirty years ago? If it is, you can't speak, but bat your eyes real fast." And she'd bat her eyes real fast; the tears run down her cheeks. Oh, brother.
Yes, that's it. You're not presuming then. You know where you stand. That's right. Oh, don't presume about it. There's so many different ways. Just don't presume. But God has give an a-vindication of His promise. See? We don't have to presume about it. God's vindicated it.

L-72 Now in Deuteronomy 18:22 you can find (18:15 to 22), you will find out the Bible said that, "The Lord your God will raise up a prophet liken unto me," Moses speaking. "And he the people... Ever who will not hear this prophet, will be cut off from amongst the people." Then He goes ahead and said, "If there be a prophet among you, or one who professes to be, and what he says doesn't come to pass, then don't you fear him. It's not right. But if the Lord has spoke to him, He will bring it to pass." See? That's the way you will know it. God give us instructions whether to know. Where we don't have to presume anything, nothing. You don't have to just imagine; you can have an experience to know it. Yes, sir.

L-73 In John 14:12, that Prophet that the Lord raised up, which was Christ Jesus His Son, that same Prophet in St. John 14:12 said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." Brother, there's no presuming on that, not a thing. He said that ye shall do it. In Mark, 16th chapter, from 15 to 18th verse, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe."
You don't have to presume. "I--do imagine I'm right. Can I--I think I'm right." Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." You don't presume nothing about it.


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