<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Today we find our places, churches, organizations, and so forth, begin to weakening again, after this great revival we've just had to sweep the land. We find out that in there they--they add a little to here, or break down a little here, or something over here. That just can't work. It never will work. It... God would not let it work at the first.
And just remember, that every sick person setting here tonight, you know the reason you're here, reason you're sick, is because one person just misbelieved one little half of a sentence of God's Word. Just one word, just misinterpreted, that's what caused you to be sick. That's what caused every graveyard out here. That's what caused all old age. That's what caused all premature babies, dead. That's what caused all death, was someone just to misbelieve the Word just a teeny bit. And if it caused all of this heartache, we'll certainly not go back in just misbelieving a little bit of It again. We got to take It all, every bit of It. And that's the way God wrote It. That's the way I believe It.

L-6 Now, I may not have faith enough to make all of it act, but I certainly won't stand in somebody's way who has that faith. I've often said I wish I had faith like Enoch had: took a little walk one afternoon and went on home with God. Didn't even have to die. I'd like to have that kind of faith. But if I haven't, I certainly praying for it, that I will have that. I believe the church is coming into that place. The--I elected church of God is coming into that spot, to that great predominating faith.
Now, we've just finished a revival across the nation, the last fifteen years. There's been quite a revival strike the world, dying down now in America, just about gone. And we returning from mission fields and feel real bad after we tell the people over there such a revival's been going on here and then see it die.

L-7 Of course, according to history, revivals only last about three years. And then revivalists last about that long, then they live on the reputation of what they was in those three years. Now, we find that the revival, the interest of the people has fallen altogether away.
Now, a twenty-minute sermon is a long time. Fifteen years ago you could stay all night long, and all day and all night, and just keep on. I stayed eight days and nights without leaving the platform. And there was five times as many there as there was when it started. But now, just a little while tired. See? The people can't help it. That's the revival over.

L-8 And now, we're back just... I leave again for overseas this coming January, I suppose for another world tour. And then over in Africa, and India, and Japan, and China, and down in the islands we find that there's still fire burning among the people there, that the revival's still moving along in there. But in our homeland it's died out.
It's my purpose to visit my friends, loved ones (I call you that.), up and down the west coast. I was on my road to Anchorage, Alaska. This is my eighth straight meeting, and about four, five, and six nights to a meeting. We're going from here down--back down to Portland, and then on into Vancouver, and then getting ready for the overseas. And I wanted to visit all the people that I once knew up and down the coast here many years ago. And it was my grand privilege, by the invitation of your pastor, and so forth, the--and other ministers here, to stop in and visit you for a few nights. And I'm sure you're going to be a blessing to me.


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