<TITLE>17. Par 59-61</TITLE>L-59 That's the reason Billy Graham said in Louisville... He went out there and bawled those preachers out, when I was setting right there in his breakfast. He said, "You lazy preachers, I come into the city," and said, "I have a revival and get thirty thousand converts. I come back in six months; I can't find thirty." Said, "What's the matter?" Said, "Paul went into a city, and had one convert and come back six months later, and had fifty over that one." Said, "He had great-great-great-great grandchildren, as it was, back." He said, "It's you lazy preachers."
Oh, I wanted to say something to the great evangelist, but I was just a dumbbell. So I just set still.
Then I want to ask something. What lazy preacher failed to take Paul's convert? If it's lazy preachers with their feet up on the desk, and don't go visit the people that they made their decision cards, is because... Paul took that decision and stayed there with it, until he cut it into the form of Jesus Christ by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And it was so on fire it made itself then to be other... Not decisions, just go say, "I make a decision," go right on with the rest of the world...

L-60 Now, Billy said that out of thirty thousand, he couldn't find thirty sometimes. It's because that... Only thing you do is roll up stones. You just might as well leave them on the field if you're not going to cut them, fix them into the building of God, make sons and daughters out of them in the... The--the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, and it cuts. And what does circumcision mean? Cut off the surplus flesh, the world. The Word circumcises it, cuts it out.
Faith holds that Sword. Some can cut up enough to join a church. Some can go on into deeper things. And some can cut all the way through to Divine healing. Depends on the strong arm of faith that's yielding that Sword. That's right. Depends on...

L-61 She had many hindrances, this woman did. Oh, my. I could call over a dozen or two I got wrote down here that would hinder her. But her faith didn't have no hindrance.
You might have hindrances. Your pastor might say, "You attend a meeting like that, I'll turn you out of church." All right. There's your hindrance. Your husband might say, "I'll leave you." Your wife might say, "I won't... I'll never... I--I--I'll--I'll divorce you." You might have a lot of hindrance. But if you've got faith, it don't have any hindrance. It knows nothing but the Word of God, and stays with it. That's right. The Word of God...
They might have said to her, "You are a Greek. That--that man don't belong to your organization. You're a Greek." "Well, our--our bunch is not sponsoring them," whatever it was.
Another bunch might've met her, and said, "Why, the days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing. That bunch of holy- rollers down there don't know what they're talking about, them Jews. We're Greek. We're smart. We're educated. We know things. But... We're intelligent people, but look at that bunch of--of people down there. All they talk about is some supernatural God doing some this a way, going through a Red Sea, or something like that." See? "But you're a Greek. You're smarter than that."
But faith had a hold, and she was persistent. She walked right on a past it. She believed it.


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