<TITLE>06. Par 23-28</TITLE>L-23 Let's follow this young ruler. The next time we find him in the Bible, he never... As soon as he rejected the opportunity to follow Jesus when it was laid down to him pretty stiff...
You see, we want to hold onto everything that we can and then follow Jesus. But sometimes Jesus wants us to turn loose of everything, so we can get both hands on Him. Sometimes we think that just because that--that we've got a hold...

L-24 Reminds me of a little thing I usually tell on my two little girls. They're not so little now, and they're pretty good-sized girls. But when they were little... One of them is Rebekah; she's the oldest. And Sarah, she's the little one. And Becky has blue eyes; and Sarah has brown. But they're both daddy's girls, you know. And so, they wait up to see me come home, and they're always love to see me. And so, Becky is kind of--was kind of a tall, skinny sort of a girl; and Sarah was a little kind of a short little bitty fellow.

L-25 And so they were waiting up for me to come home one night. I'd been away on meetings, and they knew I'd be home, so they thought they'd just wait a little while, and if I come home, they wanted to see me. Well, the sandman must've sprinkled sand in their eyes, and they got sleepy, and finally they went to bed out in their room.
And I got in late. So I got in, was real tired, went to bed. And after the meetings and so forth, I get so tired I can't sleep after a few weeks of meeting. And I slept about two or three hours, got up, went in the--in the living room, and just set down in the chair. I was setting there in the chair early in the morning.

L-26 And after while Becky turned over in her bedroom, and she realized it was daylight. And she looked out through the hall, and she seen me setting out there in that chair. Out of bed she come just as hard as she could, those little, skinny, long legs just a-reaching for it.
Well, that--that alarmed Sarah. And I don't know whether your children does that or not, but mine. You get something for the oldest one, and the second one takes the hand-me-down. And Sarah was wearing Rebekah's pajamas, the feet way big, you know, and too big for her. And she... Out of the bed she come, and them big feet flying. And she could hardly keep up with Rebekah.

L-27 So Rebekah beat her to me. And she jumped up on my lap, throwed both arms around me, just kind of... She was on my right knee, and her long legs reached down to the floor. And she was pretty well-balanced.
It kind of reminds me of some of the greater first organizations, you know, that come along. You know, they been here a long time, kind of long-legged, and so forth, pretty well-balanced. And here comes Sarah along, the little young church, you know, that hasn't been out very long. And she kind of seen that Becky had beat her--beat her there.

L-28 So Rebekah had her arms around me. And she looked around, and she said, "Sarah, my sister, I want you to know one thing." She said, "I was here first." And she said, "I've got all of daddy, and there's none left for you." (They try to tell us that, you know, all the time.) Said, "I was here first, and I've got all of daddy, and there's none left for you."
Poor little Sarah dropped her head down, and her little lip fell down. She started to go away, and the tears in those big brown eyes. And Becky had her head laying over on my shoulder, kind of hugging me. I took my finger and reached like that to Sarah, and pushed the other leg out.


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