<TITLE>08. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Now, you see, to the little boys here tonight, that little boy was going--maybe going fishing, or he might've been on his road to school. But when he--when he seen that crowd, he (like any little boy) he--he run up as a spectator to see what was going on.
But one time he heard the voice of Jesus, that--that was better than going fishing. He--he wanted to listen what was said. Then they asked if there was anything to eat, and he only had his two little fish and five biscuits. And so then, it--it wasn't very much in the little boy's hand; but when he let Jesus have it, look what it did.
And now, that's what it is. Our lives are not very much as long as we handle it ourself. But once in the hands of the Creator, how He can take what little we got, and press it out, and feed the multitude. And you just remember that. When you hear Jesus speaking in your heart, just surrender all you've got to Him. Then He will go to multiplying it and feeding the others by your testimony. And whatever you have to give Him, He will bless it.

L-31 So when John got through with his testimony, he could no more than hardly get set down until this great, brawny-backed fisherman called Peter raised up in the boat, looked over to Andrew, and said, "I remember when my brother Andrew went to hear John. He told me that he was speaking of a Messiah coming, so I thought it was just another rumor crossing the country, it's just somebody, as they'd been coming and going."
"So you know, Andrew come in one day thoroughly convinced that this was the Messiah, so he called me to go with him down to listen at Him one morning. So I told him I would go hear once, because I had made up in my mind that if it was the Messiah I would know Him, because I wasn't going to approach Him by any silly idea; I was going to approach it, the subject, by the Scripture. It had to be by the Bible."

L-32 "And Andrew here, my brother, can well remember our old gray-headed father when he set me on the boat one day, after we'd almost out of bread at home, and the barrel was about empty, and the cruse dry, and we couldn't catch no fish."
"And that morning, while we gathered around, we had some debts to pay, and we prayed, 'God give us a good catch today.' And Andrew, you're aware how we prayed of those things, and how dad taught us. And that day we had a marvelous catch, enough to pay off all the debts, and get us something to eat for the day.
"And that day dad took me by the hand, and he said, 'Simon, my boy, I have taught you the things that's right. All my days I've longed to see that coming Messiah. I believed that I would see Him. But it's seemingly now that I--I'm old, and I perhaps won't be able to see Him. And... But you'll probably see Him in your day. We've looked for Him through the generations to come since the very beginning of time. But someday, Simon, He will arrive. And if He doesn't come in my generation, He may come in yours, because He's a promise of God.'"

L-33 I like that. God's promise cannot fail. That's right. The Word is positive. It cannot change. It must stay just the way it's written. God will judge the world someday, and the world will have to have a standard. And if the church is a standard, which is... Where is the church? There's hundreds of different organizations of them. But the standard that God will judge it by is by His Word.
I believe the Word, for in the book of Revelation it's written, "Whosoever shall add one thing to, or take anything out, the same will be taken out from the part of the Book of Life for him." So I believe that this Word is just what It is. It's just God's Word.


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