<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>62-0519, Fellowship, American Baptist Assembly, Green Lake, WI, 73 min
L-1 Let us remain standing just a moment for a word of prayer while we bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, as we're approaching Thee tonight, Lord, in this time of fellowship, we thank Thee for the Blood of Jesus Christ, and for this time of fellowship.
Now, laying before me is some handkerchiefs that's been sent in here, Lord, to the convention. It represents people who are needy. And we're told in the Bible that they took from the body of St. Paul handkerchiefs and aprons, and unclean spirits went away from them, and the sick was healed. We realize that we're not St. Paul, but You're still the same God. And You have provided a way today, for You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. We pray that You heal these people.

L-2 And may, as one writer said, that when Israel was blocked off by the Dead Sea from the promised land, that God looked down through the Pillar of Fire with angry eyes, and the sea got scared and rolled back, and Israel went on the journey. God, I pray that when these handkerchiefs are laid upon the body of the sick, may God look, not only through the Pillar of Fire, but through the Blood of His own Son, Who makes, and may the sickness move back and give place for the healing power of Christ.
Bless this convention, Lord, in its finishing up tonight. We pray that You'll just visit us in a great way, as You have been doing, and give us of Thy blessings. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.

L-3 The Lord bless. I was so stirred by the--the compliment just paid me by Brother Carlson. How I would like to take time to say a few things about that. But I know that you've been... Today and all through the convention, there's been many preaching, and much preaching of great preachers that has spoke to you. And I--I appreciate them all. And I know you're tired now, and you'll be going home after while, and maybe to your churches tomorrow. And I--I won't take much of your time. But as Brother Carlson in just such a noble statement...

L-4 Last night when I left here I put my arms around Joseph. I said, "What's the matter with me?" I asked my wife the other day, "Am I a madman?" I can't help from saying those things. There's an impulse within me that drives it, and I--I can't help that. It's something, it's... I look around and upon the church.
This afternoon in the motel I'm staying in, there was a bunch of people come in drunk, and women, grandmothers, and wearing shorts, and dressed immorally, and drinking, and smoking. And I--I thought, "God, why should I speak to my sisters in the way that I do, and not wanting to say those things, but why should I do that, and looky here?"
And just as sweetly, not a audible voice, but something inside me said, "I don't want My children looking like that." There you are. See? You are different people. When I seen Him say--heard it in my heart, "Don't want My children..." that done me good. "My children..." I love the church. That's what Christ died for, the church. And I believe in the church. But some of the things that goes on in the church when you constantly preach against it, and lay the Word out to it; and then see the church still grope on in that, it's...

L-5 See, honestly, I know I'm called everything from an archangel to a devil. I'm your brother. I'm your brother. And those things might be said about me. I can't help what's said. I must be honest. I want to say as Paul, "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision" that came to me as a boy. And since then the Lord has worked--having confidence in God, faith in Christ.


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