<TITLE>11. Par 70-78</TITLE>L-70 A man said to me once, "I believe that's the Truth. But if I preached that, I'd be begging there in the street."
Do you remember the rich man and Lazarus, what their last and their eternal stage stood at? Though one had--was a beggar, and the other was a rich man, but the picture changed one day and both of them could remember. So people tonight holler about Judas that sold Him for personal gain, and so many do the same thing today, sell Him for personal gain.
The priest of them days will also remember they sold their chance of Him, their chance to become His servant, to become His disciple, to become a convert to Him. They sold it for green poisoned jealousy. They were jealous of His doctrine. Why, when He was yet twelve years old, He could stump them any way; and not recognize it, that that was Messiah. They could not do the things that He did. And they were afraid that they'd lose their prestige before the higher up-and-up people, and they sold their opportunity. And they're just as guilty as Herod was.

L-73 And the church member of today is the same. If they trusted in their denominations and so forth, them days, and was afraid of their--of their prestige, they'd be put out of the synagogues, what was it then? It was idolatry, worshipping a idol creed or a idol church religion, instead of accepting the living Word which was manifested before them.
And they saw the Word of God. The Bible said, "We have seen Him and handled Him." Human beings laid hands upon the literal, living, manifested Word of the living God, and let traditions and creeds stand between them, washing pots and pans, such a filthy thing stand between them and the living God. Yes.
What was it? They were prejudice. They were prejudice against His clean, clear-cut Gospel Scripture that He was teaching, the Father's Word. They were jealous of Him. They were prejudice of Him. And as long as they have a remembrance, which still in hell they'll remember, that's the way they'll be remembered. That's the way they'll have to remember Him.
You say, "Oh, that was the Pharisees."

L-76 There's a little lady that used to come to this church. Oh, I suppose maybe many of you know her; she lives down the street here a ways. She'd fallen away. And every time I see her, she runs to me, puts her hands in mine, "Brother Bill, pray for me. I'm backslid." Her husband is a... No, I think they live right up the street here. I've seen her in the Spirit, seen the Spirit of God on her, and her dancing, rejoicing, and so forth. And she'd fallen away. And she was laying recently in the hospital out here, dying, they thought. And she sent for me to come pray for her.
She and her husband was awfully good to my wife, when my wife, a little, ragged, dirty-faced girl, and they'd buy her a little dress or something now and then to help her to go to school. No matter how little it is, you can't do one thing for God 'less He remembers it. "Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these My little ones, you've done it unto Me." And like bread upon the water, it will return.

L-78 There laid this poor, little, backslidden woman, crying, holding my hand. And she... I said, "Well, sister, I'll--I'll have prayer for you."
And laying next bed to her was a woman laying there with her hands crossed, looking at me, and her young son setting by her side, of about twenty, a modern Ricky-looking...
So not no disregard if somebody's name should be Ricky, but I mean that's a... You never heard of a name like that in days gone by. Elvis and Ricky, and it's just a name of the age. You see? If you got a child named that, call it its middle name, so--or give it one.


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