<TITLE>05. Par 34-40</TITLE>L-34 Now, we're happy that you're going to be baptized. Now, if God is willing and that pleases Him, and it's all right with the pastor and the people, next Sunday morning I'll be down to pray for the sick and to speak, if the Lord willing, this coming Sunday, 'cause I perhaps the following Sunday I'll be gone again then. And now when I'm in, I like to come in and--and speak here, 'cause we're kind of associated together as brethren, and Brother Neville and I here, and we--we love one another, and we--we--we want to stay close and help one another as...

L-35 This sounds sacrilegious, but I hope it don't sound that way to you. Mr. Cory said one time, he... I was in a lamp campaign, selling bulbs for the company. And he bought enormous lot of bulbs which would keep him for four or five years. I turned around and bought a Ford from him. He said, "Billy, I believe we're just scratching each other's back." So that's, well, just kind of helping out in the time of need. So that's--that's right. We know how to come to one another's rescue and help each other.

L-36 Now, let's go to the sincere part of it now. And if I'm not mistaken, I believe I see Brother Beeler back there in the back, another minister brother. And today when I passed by, Brother Junie Jackson was standing out here in the yard with Brother Creech. Did they have a service here sometime? Baptismal service, I see. All right, we can furnish the water if they'll get the candidate. We--we got the water, all right.

L-37 So now, being that we're going to have the communion, I thought it would be good if I talked on communion just for a few minutes.
Now, before we approach the Word, let's lay aside everything now, and all of our childish and kiddish ways, and--and approach into the Presence of God by prayer. Let us pray. Now, with our heads bowed, and I trust our hearts also, if there is a request in here that would--you'd like to be made known to God, and would like for me to remember you before God, would you just let it be known by raising your hand to God. God grant each and everyone's request.

L-39 Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who raised Him up from the dead and set Him at the right hand of the Majesty, ever living to make intercessions upon the things that we believe that He did for us, and confess it to be so, we pray, Lord God, that tonight, that You'll forgive our sins. Oh, we want to keep under the Blood at all times, for we don't know just what might happen. All things are about wound up, we feel, Lord, that the coming of the Lord is at hand. And we're fixing to take a journey. And as we think of a journey, we might think of suitcases, and--and extra clothing and extra shoes. But how different from this journey, it's not packing up; it's unpacking, laying aside. As Your great servant Paul said in the Book of the Hebrews the 12th chapter, "We lay aside every weight and the unbelief that does so easily beset us, that we might run with patience the race that's set before us."

L-40 And we cannot prophesy now of good things to this modern world. The only thing that we can prophesy through the Spirit is disaster, troubles, earthquakes, great tidal waves, sun and moon failing, the church in the Laodicean age, Christ outside the door, knocking to get in. O God. Just as Micaiah of old, how could he bless Ahab when prophecy was against him? When that great mighty prophet Elijah walked up to him, and because he had took the life of that innocent man Naboth, so he said, "The dogs will lick your blood." Then how could Micaiah prophesy good things?


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