<TITLE>07. Par 23-27</TITLE>L-23 May we purpose in our hearts tonight, to be quiet before the Lord, wait upon Him, wait, moment by moment expecting the right word to be said, or the right thing to be done that would give us the appropriate faith that would dash right into the blessings of God.
As we further wait, Lord, reading the Word, help me, O God, that I'll be deeply sincere and anointed with the Spirit. Bless all the ministers, that they will be likewise, and all the people, because it takes us all together, Lord, as we've assembled in Your Name, waiting in Your Name, expecting in Your Name. For these blessings that we have now asked to come to pass, we place it upon Your altar by the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, with all the faith that we got. May each one of us, our requests up there and asking over it in the Name of Jesus Christ for it to come to pass. Amen.

L-24 Now, let us be real sincere, and hopeful now, that what we have asked for... It would be wrong to ask for something and then disbelieve it. See, we don't--we don't get enough sincerity with our--with our worship. We must be deeply sincere. I wonder, can you hear all right in the balcony? Not just... Yeah, back there. I see their hands. Just tested, well, wonderful. That's fine. Now, I don't mean to yell. Sometimes I've been used to speaking outdoors, and I speak a little loud. So I don't mean to be yelling.

L-25 Now, just be yourself, simple, humble, waiting for the coming of the Lord. Now, we don't believe in glamor, something shining. You know, I always said, "Hollywood shines; but Christianity glows." There's a lot of difference between shining and glowing. Hollywood shines with great class, and--and society, and, oh, glamor. But the... Christianity glows with humility. The way up is always down. Now, I trust that every one will be filled with the Holy Spirit. And now, before you can be filled with the Holy Spirit, you've got to die to yourself first, in order to be borned again.

L-26 I just had an accident: still see the scars over my face, where... Shooting a rifle someone give me, and it blowed up in my face, a big Weatherby Magnum, about sixty-eight hundred pounds of pressure, steel striking through my face and into my eyes. It's a wonder I've even got eyes, just God's grace and--or even a head or shoulders. And what they said was the matter, was that the gun was leaking pressure. It had been a converted gun that had been, made it over from what, not a regular Weatherby Magnum, but a Winchester been converted into a Weatherby Magnum. I always wanted one, but I never could think I could afford one, and I wouldn't let none of my friends buy such. They're expensive.

L-27 Now, you know, I hunt big game, world over: Africa, India, Alaska, everywhere. And I do a lot of target shooting, and I--I was testing this gun that somebody had made it over--had Weatherby to make it over. But he didn't make it right. Somehow it blowed back. Instead of going out, it blew back, and all the mechanism just melted in my hands. And some... The barrel blew out on the fifty yard line, and the scope and pieces struck off the trees, and the stock went about twenty-five, thirty yards behind me, what was left of it. I was just standing there, just bleeding, and blood flying every way. All I seen was red fire go about as high as the ceiling there, and that's all I remembered for a second or two. Well, I got a sermon out of it.
You see, that gun wasn't... By being converted into a something that it wasn't, they had built up a pressure. Instead of blowing the bullet that way, it blew the mechanism this a way. Now, that's the same way it happens when a man comes to God, and just shakes a preacher's hand or something, and don't go back, and die out and be borned again.


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