<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-1111M, Dedication, Full Gospel Apostolic Church, Elizabethtown, KY, 65 min
L-1 Good morning to all. It's indeed a privilege to be here this morning in this nice little church and for a rededicational service. As I was just talking to Sister Hoover in the back room, she said it was once, I believe, a Pilgrim Holiness, or United Brethren church (Pilgrim Holiness, I believe, yes) and now is being rededicated to the full Gospel, and this is a rededicational service.
And its nice pastor, as we all know, Brother Hoover is a very sincere, consecrated boy. His mother, I knew her years ago. She and my family were just like... The children, even they call her Mammy Hoover, because that she just kind of... She stayed with us for a long time when the children were young, and--and they just know her that way: a godly, saintly old mother.
And her fine preacher boy that she prayed so much for has give his life to Christ, and consecrated his life for the services of the Almighty God. And now today stands, and picking up the church, or the building here, where it has laid, probably, dormant for so long, to continue on the Gospel in the full Gospel manner--mea--measure.

L-2 Mrs. Hoover was just telling me (Mrs. L. G. Hoover), was just telling me that was her little girl playing the song a few minutes ago, the coming song of "Only Believe," and is the pianist here at the piano. Three months ago, when they came in, they--she couldn't strike a tune. But now, she can play. Now, that's very, very fine.
I've got a girl setting back here, that's been taking music lessons for about five years or more. And it... I don't know what it's cost me, and a new piano. She couldn't play a hymn that good as that little child was going. So it shows what God-given talents are, and then something you try to manufacture. You see?

L-3 Now, we are grateful that God has give this place to these people, and I'm trusting that it will be a great lighthouse to this part of the country.
Now, many times people think that when they see a congregation... And they think, "Well, this little church won't hold very many people." And--and I believe Brother L. G. told me, or some way, that his congregation is about seventy or eighty people, and something on that order. I may be a little under or a little over, but it's somewhere around there, just starting off.
They'd think, "Well, look at the churches in the--around the country today, that their congregation ranks in the thousands." And may be some at each service day they have thousands.
But to encourage this little group, that isn't exactly what God looks at--numbers. He--He looks at... He doesn't always place Himself on the basis of quantity, but in quality.

L-4 We see in the Bible, in the 19th chapter of Acts where Paul, passing through the upper coast, came to Ephesus. And there he found a church. That was the Ephesian church, which was the first in the church age considered in the Revelation of Christ. And in this church here there was twelve people, as recorded. Twelve people was the number.
But if this church only had twelve, or like that church did, and completely surrendered to God, He can do more with that twelve than He could with the rest of the world. It's the surrender that we have, where the truth of the Gospel not only goes from the platform, but finds its bed in the hearts of the people and reacts back. So I deem this a pleasure this morning.


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