<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-0127, Meanest Man I Know, Ramada Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 106 min
L-1 One time Billy Paul, my son, was to speak at a--address a congregation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the--he is not a minister. He's like his daddy. But he said, "The first thing, I'm scared." So that's something on the order, I suppose, the way I feel this morning, standing here before these men of the Lord, His servants; and getting up here after such men as Brother Oral Roberts, Velmer Gardner, and other great servants of the Lord has been here preaching...
And then I was just noticing the time and hearing the announcements. It takes me about six hours to preach, so I--I couldn't have time this morning for that. I usually start in at about seven-thirty at night and let out about one or two in the morning. So I just hardly haven't got time. Maybe I will try that tomorrow afternoon.
So it's a privilege of being here this morning. I deem this a great honor that the brethren has presented to me through the Lord, that I would be able to come here and address this wonderful breakfast this morning. Looking out, seeing that you, no doubt, had a real breakfast, I trust, that both spiritually and materially.

L-2 And now we have had such a glorious time in the last nine days here through the Maricopa Valley of Phoenix, and Tempe, and Mesa, and Sunnyslopes, with this group of ministers in their churches. We deem this such a privilege to go... forerun this great convention, addressing them and telling them that we're expecting the exceedingly abundantly above all that we could do or think to happen in this meeting.
Brother Williams has just told me that one of his relatives was saved last night, which would been a--very much in sin, and we are... If that man is here this morning, I thank the Lord for you, my brother, and with all them who got saved. And pray that if there's any here that's not saved, that they will fall right in line this morning and--and be saved.

L-3 Speaking of visions, I have... That's more or less been the--my ministry that the Lord gave me. Because not being sufficiently equipped with an education and so forth, I maybe could not class myself as a clergyman. But in this way I can be able to speak to the people and not... Just say what I know, and then He confirms the rest of it. So then, if that much is all right, and He says it's all right, then the rest of it's all right too. What... They know how to speak, that I maybe not know.

L-4 I love the Lord because He's so merciful when we're so undeserving. And yet He is so merciful. That's been one of the marvels of my life and my experience has been to see when we were so unworthy, and yet He visits us anyhow. And it just rides over the top of our unworthiness and gives us His blessings anyhow.
As all know that, many of you know perhaps that... And just learning of another brother going through a deep time of sorrow, like I have by losing my mother... I don't think I lost her; I think she just went ahead of me. And I hear that Brother Rolph McPherson's daughter died. Is that right, brother? Has anybody...? My, that grieved my heart when some sister told me. I didn't even know it.


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