<TITLE>20. Par 66-69</TITLE>L-66 One time we was having a revival in the country. There was an old country fellow come in, pair of overalls on. Made an altar call one night, and he come up to the altar. He got down. He said, "You mean that this Holy Ghost is for me?"
"Yes, sir."
Said, "How will I ever get it?"
I said, "Just the way the Bible says to get it."
And so he said, "All right. Here I come." He said, "I want It." He got down and prayed a little while. Looked up, said, "I ain't getting nowhere."
I said, "You're the cause of it, not God's promise."
And he got down there and prayed; about two o'clock in the morning here he come. He had it. He changed.
Now, he didn't have no education. He didn't have nothing but an old Ford truck and an experience. I'm going to tell you what he did. He was convinced that it was God. He was concerned about his community. And that old boy with that experience and a Ford truck got twenty other people saved during the revival. All he had was an experience and a Ford truck, and he was convinced that it was right. We got more than that tonight. I wonder if we can be concerned about it, just as that farmer was: convinced.

L-67 Samson? Oh, sure. Samson one day... He was convinced that God was God. He was convinced that God was with him when he could hold his seven locks back there, and knowed it was the promise God give him. He was concerned about his people. He didn't have a thing to fight with but the jawbone of a mule, but he slayed a thousand Philistines. Why? He was convinced, and then he was concerned.
David, with a slingshot... But what was the matter? He was convinced that God was God. He was concerned about his father's sheep. And he didn't have very much to fight with, but he was convinced and concerned. So he went after his father's sheep, and he brought it back. Yes, sir.

L-68 Now. We could stay here for an hour or more, but we're not going to do it. I want to say one thing. How about Brother Boze here? He's not underwritten. That's right. He isn't underwritten. He isn't sponsored by anybody. But he's convinced that those people need the Gospel, and he's concerned about it. Therefore, he's trying to take the Gospel to them. I think if he's concerned, we ought to be concerned too. Don't you think so?
If he's convinced that they need it, and we're all convinced, and brother doctor come up here's convinced, these other missionaries are convinced, then if we're convinced, we ought to be concerned. Don't you think so? We ought to be concerned.
You say, "Well, what part's that to me?"

L-69 Reminds me of a little cartoon I seen not long ago in a paper. (In closing I might say this.) That cartoon inside a newspaper (our home's just across the river), the Courier Journal, and there was a--a picture of a father and mother, been out drinking all night. And on Sunday morning it was up about nine o'clock. And they had pictures of Christ all over the house and Bibles in the drawer. And--and around where they had been laying there, sleeping all night, cigarettes were laying on the floor, and everything else, and bottles setting up; a little boy got up and washed his face, and eat his breakfast, and got ready, and knocking at the door. And said, "Which one of you all going to take me to Sunday school?" That's right. No one concerned.


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