<TITLE>06. Par -</TITLE>L-9-3 St. John, 1st chapter, 35 to 41, like to read these precious Words.
And... Again the next day after Jesus stood, and two of his disciples;... (Pardon me)... after John stood, and two of his disciples;
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of God.
And... two disciples--the two disciples heard Him speak, and they followed Jesus,
Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said unto them, What seek ye? They said unto Him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
He said unto them, Come and see. And... They came and saw where He dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
One of the two which heard Jesus or--John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
He first finds his own brother Simon, and said unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
And now may God add His blessings to this Word.

L-10-1 Now I want to draw tonight, if the Lord willing, for a little--for a--a word, two words I want to use out of there. The two words I want to use is "Concerned and Convinced."
Now, as we know--and we all do--that we are now seeing a great cooling off around the nation. I first started out there was a lot of tinsel on the meetings. People were in prayer meetings everywhere. And criticize... Papers criticized me. One woman drove three thousand miles in a taxicab just to get to the meeting in Canada. They're not that concerned any more. Seems like that there's become a falling away. And seems like there's not much concern--not too much anyhow--as--not as much as there should be--very little concern.

L-10-3 Now, about the only concern that we have is not--them all night meetings when I--I stayed at the platform once for eight days and nights without leaving, trying to pray for all of the people; and at the end there was forty-something thousand people waiting to be prayed for. See? Couldn't do it. But they would take a group this a-way and go into the woods; they'd take a group this way and go to the woods, ministers, praying the people through to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Just couldn't rest until they received the Holy Ghost.
Beg your pardon. I said forty-two thousand; I believe if you'd look at it in the magazine there was twenty-eight thousand, it was, that was still waiting. For miles around Jonesboro there wasn't even a place that you could rent, and tent cities up and everything. They're not that concerned any more. See, the revival fires are dying down.

L-10-5 Concerned is now, "Just come and join the church." Or a great concern is support some radio mission or some television affair, and making that some kind of a show (and all for the good, of course, sure); big buildings, building great schools, and so forth like that. It seems to be that is the--the concern now. Kinda lost the vision of that prayer and constraining and like they used to have. There's something has happened. I would just like to know what it was.

L-10-6 And now, they don't seem to be concerned about... You can visit this church or call for people to come to the altar, and it used to be they'd just run to the altar. And I've seen the time while I was preaching, before I could even get my sermon finished, the altar and up and down the aisles would be lined with people. I've seen the time that the Holy Spirit would move out into the audience, and--and predict, and tell somebody something, and the people would marvel and just faint right in their seat.


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