<TITLE>04. Par 13-18</TITLE>L-13 So I asked him if he'd try to get me another one of those, 'cause there's some more books coming up, and they're--they're going... I want the article in it with his name. And, by the way, I think they got some books out the back (I think that's right, isn't it?), Brother Wood and them, and the tapes, and so forth, as the--out the back, as you go out.
And now, we're... I'm soliciting all your prayers. I go across praying for people, and then, I--I'm the one that needs prayer. Maybe you wouldn't hardly understand that, but that's the truth. It's a... I need it probably worse than all of you. And maybe not in the way of sickness, but in the way of what I've got to meet day by day.

L-14 And each day... There's people setting right here now, looking right at me, that I was on interview this morning with, and so forth, and knows that... how it just takes the Spirit of God to move out in there, and find those cracks and corners in life.
This is the Word. We believe that. And that's the Word. But God sets in the church apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. And all those things are the perfecting. And now, the teachers and the pastors and the evangelists, they're the ones who brings the Word. And the prophets are to comb in those little corners for individuals (You see?), and foretell things that's coming, and so forth.

L-15 The apostles are actually missionaries. I believe, now... My education's very limited, but the--I think the word "apostle" means "one sent." Is that right? Doesn't missionary the same thing? "One sent." So how you ever desired to be called missionaries, instead of apostles, I don't know. But either one of them's all right, as long as--long as the Lord sent. That's fine.
Now, I am... I won't take much of your time, for the baptismal service coming right up. I want to read some Scripture, and I hope it don't take me too long.

L-16 I said last night, "Give me thirty minutes." And when I was going down the road, after I was trying to come back to myself from swinging from those spheres in there, my son said, "That was a good twenty minutes, dad." Said, "Just about an hour and forty-five."
I said, "Oh, I wasn't there that long. I couldn't have been." And I looked around at my watch, and I said, "Yeah." But you know, it's something about... Thank you. It's something that's... They love me. They love me, and I love them too. I got to meet some of them brothers out there and shake that hand of a real good old southern heart beating under there. I really like that.

L-17 But you know, sometimes... Every minister knows when the Holy Spirit just seems to... every word you say just sinking in. Isn't it a wonderful feeling? You just hate to stop, don't you? And yet, you know you're rude and interrupting the meeting, but you just can't hardly stop.
It reminds me... I got two little girls at home, and they're pretty good girls now, a pretty good size. One of them is sixteen years old, and the other one's twelve. One of them is Rebekah, and the other one is Sarah. And Sarah is the little fellow.

L-18 Well, a few years ago, and... I was coming in from a meeting. They're both daddy's girls. Oh, my. You know how... And the little boy, little hmm, talk about a... He said he's going to be a preacher. I said, "Honey, you got a lot of reforming to do, if you do." And so... Joseph.
And so, the girls were quite small yet, and they were waiting up till about midnight for me to get in. And I was tired--and been driving all for two or three days, coming in from California. And when I got home, 'course the little girls had got sleepy and done gone to bed. And mother was waiting up. So I lay down to try to sleep, and I just couldn't do it. And you know, shaky, and nervous, and things from the meetings, the impact: souls, and realizing all that responsibility, holding the purchase of the Blood of Christ before you. It's not just a easy thing. Brethren here know what it is, how you...


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