<TITLE>06. Par 22-27</TITLE>L-22 It's too hot this afternoon for me to preach what I was going to speak on. So Billy told me out there, said, "Daddy, you'd be better off..." Said, "You promised to take up all those prayer cards." Said, "You'd be better off if you just walked in there, and--and--and thanked the people, and walked out." But I'd feel like a traitor to Christ, if I didn't read a Scripture, and say something. That's right.
And we're going to pray for the--for the sick too, every prayer card. Now, I just ask if you would just be as reverent as possible, and I'll hurry it right up.

L-23 It's a strange thing that this meeting come about, how it come to happen, but the Lord brought it to pass. Now, before we approach the Word, let's approach the Author of the Word, the Lord Jesus, by the way of prayer.
Our gracious Father, we thank Thee for Thy goodness and Thy mercy. Thou art God. From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. And, Lord, this little meeting down here with these fine men, Your servants. These fine people out there who's went down in their pockets to--to sponsor this meeting, and paid out their living, I pray, God, that like bread upon the water it will return.

L-24 I pray for these ministers, their churches, their peoples. God, may their little churches grow until it spreads out, and may out of their churches go mighty evangelists and missionaries to all the world. Let us work, Lord, for we know we haven't much more time to work. We see time closing in. Soon we're looking for the Angel that will set His foot on the land and on the sea, and raise up His hand and swear by Him that lives forever and ever, time shall be no more. Said at that time the mystery of God should be finished. We understand now, Father, that God's threefold mystery has been made known to us. And we understand, and we're looking now for those mysterious thunders that came out from heaven, in the book of Revelations, that was sealed on the back of the book.

L-25 Reveal to us, O Lord, the things that we need for the battle ahead of us. Forgive our sins, our--our many neglectful things, our iniquity. We pray, God, that this afternoon that You'll do the exceeding abundantly above all that we could do or think.
Now, Father, we're not here to be seen. These people are not here to be seen. It's hot. They're setting with their coats off, the men, the precious sisters setting there fanning. They're here because they are hungry. They love You. And, Lord, I'm here with a rasped throat from this smog. And--and I--I'm here because that I believe that You ordained that we should be here this afternoon. And my heart is wide open; theirs is wide open. So come in, Lord Jesus, and speak to us the things You'd have us to know, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-26 I want to announce the little text I want to use. I want to call it "Super Sign." And I announced my text before I read my Scripture, and that's a little unusual. Usually you read your Scripture, and then get your text. But you know, sometimes God does things in unusual ways, unusual times.

L-27 In Isaiah, the 7th chapter and the 14th verse, I would like to read a portion of Scripture, this one verse, to make a context that I have drawn this text from.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
We are living in a day of "super." If it isn't super, it doesn't go over. Everything's got to be super. It's a super day. You go to the store, the little corner grocery-man's out of business. They got to go to the supermarket. Get some stamps and pay a lot more for them, about a nickel apiece, 'cause it's a supermarket. They can't give you them stamps, you know. But it--it's a supermarket. It's air conditioned. Walk in it, you pay for it.


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