<TITLE>34. Par 241-245</TITLE>L-241 And while we have our heads bowed, our hearts bowed too... I'm a very odd person about inviting people to altars; I believe it's not apostolic doctrine. I believe right where you're setting you make your decision, whether you really want to live or die. I believe it's up to you. And if there's someone here that didn't never before really see it just that way, and realize the hour that we're in, and you'd just like for me to remember you in prayer, that you want to become a Christian, and you want to be a Christ-like in your life, and be ready for His coming, would you just raise your hands around over the building. The Lord bless you, bless you, bless you, and you, and you. God bless you back there in the back, bless you down here. That's fine. God bless you, young lady, right at the crossroads of life, sister. That's a great decision. You might've done a lot of great... God bless you, dad. Yes, you might've worked a many hard day in your life too, and raised a little kiddie. Mom, you sitting by her. O God. Maybe you've raised your family and done many great things, patted the little baby's cheeks when it was crying, and rocked the cradle with your little young hands, and now they're old and feeble. You might've rocked the baby and done a many a good thing, but the best thing you ever done was when you raised your hand then. Forgive me; excuse me, please.

L-242 Our heavenly Father, You seen the hands. You know what was behind them. Now, they're trophies of this meeting. They're trophies of the message. You said, "All that the Father has given Me will come to Me, and no man can come except My Father draws him first." And You spoke to this people. And they were setting there, and according to science they could not--their hands are supposed to stay down, 'cause gravitation holds them down. But they broke and defied the laws of science. They got a Spirit in them that raised the hand; that's contrary to science; because the Spirit in there can break science. And they raised their hand because there was a Spirit of God around them, that said, "You're--you need Christ." And they raised up their hands, "Remember me, O Lord."
As the dying thief on the cross said, "Remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom..."
And what did You say to him? "Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise."

L-245 And I pray, Father, that this very day that You'll take into Your Kingdom, into Your fellowship here on earth, every one of these believers, and be kind to them. Jesus, You said, when You were here on earth in St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life; and shall not come to the judgment; they'll not be there when the judgment strikes the earth, but they have passed from death unto Life." You promised it, Lord. I claim them.
And now to all that raised their hands, and even those who in their heart believed that they should and didn't, I give them to You this morning, Father, as trophies of the grace of Jesus Christ and of His Word which we've preached this morning. They are Yours. Keep them safely, Lord, until that day. And may they grow as babes. May the waters here in the pool find them as they've confessed their sins, dying out, being buried in Christ, to raise again to a new life, to walk in a new world, walk with new associates, walk in new company, walk with Angels, walk in the Presence of the supernatural. Them things that they can't see around them, but they feel and know that they're there, they're the lasting things; the supernatural is the lasting. We give them to You Father, in Jesus' Name. Amen.


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