<TITLE>17. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 While they were--while they were out there... We'll hurry up the testimony and then pray for the sick. Let's watch just a minute, go back, a little further back. Let's go back now. They said, "Oh, praise God." They were all shouting, and having a great time.
And a little breeze blew up. What was it? Satan must've looked up from over that desert dry hill, and he thought this: "There they are, and they've gone off without Him. Now's my chance."
That's what he wants--to get the church. You know, lately we've been so busy anyhow. You know. There's been a revival across the land. It's kind of died down now. Fires are going out. But we've been so busy, making new organizations and new sensations. And I wonder if we don't run off sometimes without Him. You know, He is the Word (That's right.), the Word. Stay with the Word. God can do anything He wants to. But to me, just... He's the Word. As long as it's in the Word here, then I believe it. See?

L-64 So we've been running here, and there, and running after everything. But I--I--I... Maybe we might have left Him somewhere. So as soon as the devil sees the church without Christ...
You know, it's too bad. I--I almost preached on that, but too many of us fell in love with television programs, instead of Wednesday night prayer meeting. Then we just--just kinda going off without Him. We got a hold of a lot of money, and we got to thinking about dressing, and our sisters all cut their hair off...?...
We got kind of fashion, looking after other churches, and maybe we go off without Him. So the devil says, "Now's my time to get them." That's when he takes that dead shot. So they're going off without Him.

L-65 So he raised up across the hill, and begin to blast his breath out. "I'll sink them." And the poor fellows started pulling. They tried to hoist the sail. And the winds cut the sail down. And they tried to pull with their oars, and they broke. They tried to join one church and then another. First thing you know, their own little bark was waterlogged.
What's the matter today? Oh, I--I tell you it's--He is great. And I think a lot of little barks is becoming kind of waterlogged, but you know, they find out that they pulled with all their heart in sincerity. So no matter how much sincerity you pull, you've got to have Him. So they pulled, and they pulled, and all hopes was gone--just about ready to die.
And that's about where it's at now. She's going right out formal again, the little church that once professed holiness, living for God, going right straight back in the world again, making her inroads right out. And if they won't have them in this one, and act like this, they'll go to another one, and act like that. Just little inroads. Devil will see that you got a way out. That's right.

L-66 Now, we find out all this was taking place, and all hopes was gone. But you know what? Here's the good part about the story. He hadn't left them. He sent them away on a revival, waving and shaking hands with the people, and have a jubilee. But you know what He done? He climbed the highest hill there was around there, so He could watch them. That's what He's done.
He climbed Calvary. They cut Him off of there. They buried Him, and then He started climbing. And He climbed till He passed the sun, moon, and stars, Jupiter, Venus, Neptune, and Mars, just kept going on. He climbed till He passed this old house of clay, and then went running up the Milky White way; climbed so high till He passed heaven.
The Bible said He looks down upon it, you know. He's higher than the heavens. His Name's above everything that's called in heaven. He got way up there, so He could look back and see the whole universe. As the old song used to go, "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me."


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