<TITLE>02. Par 5-10</TITLE>L-5 As I come in the door, I heard Brother Beeler offering prayer, and was thinking of him being a veteran, and this being Armistice Day. And of course, we're all glad that there was an Armistice Day. And there can also be a--an Armistice Day here in the church, that when people who have been at war with themselves against God can sign the armistice today, have peace with God through Jesus Christ. I believe Romans 5:1 said, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
And now, I've noticed some people setting here, Brother and Sister Bryant and some friends here from the Tabernacle.

L-6 Now, this morning I was going to speak on a subject of the Sunday school lesson this morning at the Tabernacle, but I've postponed it until tonight because coming here for this dedication. The services will begin early tonight (See?), at the Tabernacle. I aim to be in the platform ready to go speaking at seven o'clock, so we won't delay. And I have a--a long message. The subject is, "Why I Have Been Against Organized Religion," and it's taught in the Scripture. So you are--folks at the Tabernacle that's there, well, you come early.

L-7 Now, Brother Hoover, I--I don't know how to thank the Lord this morning for a young man who's given hisself to Christ, and among his people here to bring this glorious message of Christ to this people.
Myself, I'm a Kentuckian. I'm just come from down the road here a little ways, from a little city called Burkesville, and I'm ask you people around here as one Kentuckian to another, come hear this boy. Get out among the people here, and scatter the news everywhere, and come in. Bring them in. If necessary, the Bible said, command them, force them to come in. Go into the highways and hedges, and--and compel--that is force. "Come on in."

L-8 And Brother Hoover, I've knowed him for a few years now, and I know him to be a godly, consecrated boy. And may the Lord ever bless his efforts. I heard your little choir. I--I tried to look around the door, and--and I heard the little choir sing, "Be Very Sure." That's right. You can be haphazard about anything else, but when it comes to your eternal destination, you better be very sure. See? Just keep that on mind: very, very sure. Don't take no chance at it.
If you went to a restaurant, ordered a bowl of soup, and in that soup there was a big spider, you certainly would push it back. You would not at all touch it (No, sir.), because it probably would kill you. The poison of this spider cooked up in this soup might cause your death. So if you're very careful about this body, which has to die (See?), what about that soul that don't have to die?
So I like all the Word of God in the form of full Gospel. And so, I know, and believe, and have confidence that Brother Hoover will keep his promise to God to preach it the best of his knowledge, the full Gospel.

L-9 Sitting there, hearing the little pianist strike that tune, "Only Believe," my son, Billy Paul... I don't think he's right here at the time. But I said, "Billy, hear that little piano tune strike 'Only Believe?'" I've heard that little song in about every language under heaven call me to the platform, from the frozen regions of the Arctics, until the tropical jungles of the south, beneath the earth, around the earth, "Only Believe" in all kinds of voices call me to the platform. Someday when my life is finished on earth, I hope they sing that, when they're--if I don't live to see His coming, when they're placing me away. I believe Jesus Christ.

L-10 Now, I have some Scriptures here that I would like to refer to in this rededication of the building: comes from the Bible. And I think that now that this church is not dedicated to an organization; it's dedicated to the service of God...
Let us bow our heads just a moment, now, as we pray.


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