<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 And I'm come now to--to do this: Jesus said the Kingdom of heaven is like a man that took a net and went to the sea. And he pulled the net, and what he took... Now, I know that each one of you in your churches have a net, and you're just swinging it all around your neighborhood trying to get every fish that you can. Now, I come to sow my net with your-all, and we'll reach way out around us (See?), everywhere and see if we can't pull in something for the Kingdom of God. That's what we're here for: to do everything that we can to--to help.
Now, it's... I think it's basic interdenomination. Everybody's welcome, the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, whatever it might be, sinner, saint, anybody, even to the drunk if he will behave hisself and set still. He's just as welcome to come as anybody, but he must behave. He must--he must respect the house of the Lord.

L-6 We're grateful for this armory, or the major, or whoever it was that let us have this lovely building. I think it's beautiful. I was over here today looking at it, trying the acoustics, and speaking. And all around was just perfect. And can you hear me all right everywhere now?
You know, people is a aerial. And it's kind of hard when you take an empty building and speak, and then fill the building up with people and speak. It's quite a difference. And so now sometimes in speaking I get just a little loud, because I'm an evangelist, missionary, and been used to preaching where there's just fields, or stadium, outside, where you're sometimes with no microphone. You just have to scream out like you were yelling at cattle. But I don't mean it that way, and I--I'm sure you'll understand.

L-7 And now usually the first night of a meeting is rather a hard night, because everybody is trying to get used to one another. And--and some are under expectation; some are wondering; and some never been in the meeting before; and some of them has heard, and--and then they draw their opinion. The first thing the minister usually says strikes home with somebody, others don't want nothing to do with it. And you have all that to combat with.
But let's not be suspicious of one another. I'm believing that you're the children of God. I want you to believe me to be the same, that I'm your brother, and I'm here to help you. Now, I'm--I'm a southerner, and I haven't got away from my talk yet, and as much as I've traveled of being just a little bit slow. So you bear with me, because I just can't think of it too fast, you know, and I just have to wait for Him to tell me. And so you bear with me, pray for me. And I'll do the same of pray for you.

L-8 Now, I thought tonight we have a little introductory message that we kind of introduce the meeting by, just a little formal talk. And that way we get to kinda learn each other, get the--the feeling of each other. Then we settle right down then into the meeting.
And now, I want you to do this for me. I want you to... There's... We got plenty of seats. Usually, in the meetings we've been having, all the way from the Cow Palace up, has been people couldn't get a seat. Last place we was at they was standing. And place was packed out five o'clock in the afternoon. You couldn't get near it. And so now, we got plenty of seats.
And I know people here in Oregon go to church, and they're fine people. And God's people everywhere are fine. And we would like to see, do your part now to the Kingdom of God, because the responsibility is not altogether on your pastors or on me. It's on all of us to honor God. And now, you do your part. We'll do ours. Between it'll, I believe it'll be a great thing, and that's what we're looking for.


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