<TITLE>34. Par -</TITLE>L-55-5 How great Thou art, how great Thou art. How many in here with your heads bowed this morning... It's approaching New Year's now; and you've been very religious; and that's good; I appreciate it, every one of you. I'm sure God does. But you really haven't had that absolute experience, that something that you just didn't make believe, you just didn't imagine, but something spoke back to you. And then you seen your life change from that time, and every Word of God, every promise is punctuated with a "Amen."
Then you're holding to the absolute, 'cause you remember, He said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not fail." If you haven't come to that place yet to where you could say "Amen" to every Word, if it was against your creed, if it was against your denomination; but you want to come to that place like Moses, like the rest of them. They could not do that till they caught that absolute. And you want it in your life this morning, would you just signify the same by just lifting your hands to God. God bless you. All right, sir. All over the building...

L-56-2 Gracious Father, I know that sometime we must part. There's got to be a time then when we're going to leave this world. We don't know what time that is, and it doesn't make too much difference. If our time is finished, then we want to come. Our objective of staying here is to serve You.
And since on the road to destructions one day, as Paul was on the road to Damascus to make havoc of the Church, a Light blinded him. And, O God, that Light followed him, for It was Christ. And he anchored there to an absolute that even death itself, he could laugh in the face of it, and say, "Thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ."
You become a complete absolute to that Apostle. He was the--You were the "Amen" to him in every sentence. You were the Star of his life, the Guide Post. You were the Compass that guided him through the storm. You were the Revelation; You were the Vision; You were his Hopes, his Salvation. And even at the hour of death, when he knowed he was going to it, You were still his Absolute.

L-56-5 You were Daniel's Absolute. You were all the prophets' Absolute. In the midst of the denominational difference, and the troubles of their days, and the Pharisees and Sadducees, still there was men who took You for their Absolute.
And today, Lord, men and women with compassion, with love, and--and hearts that are bleeding, Lord, for a real experience of knowing God, and to have a--an assurance of an Absolute... Maybe all the people ever knowed before, Lord, was to join the church. And we realize, as I have tried to sincerely, not to be different (You know my heart), but tell them you cannot join the Church; you join the lodge, the Methodists, and Baptists, and Catholic, and Pentecostal lodges; but you're borned into the Church, the mystical Body of Christ, and become members of His Body, with the gifts of the Spirit to make His great Body move in action and power.

L-57-1 God, that's what these hands meant this morning when they went up. "Place me, O Lord. Take me, mold me, make me; just make my position in life such an absolute, tied to Christ, that I'll think of nothing else but that absolute." Grant it, Lord. And bless them. Heal the sick and the afflicted. Save the lost.
Now, Lord, we know it's customary to call to the altar the people, but that has become a tradition to us. And this morning with the altars filled and the--the little children and--and all... But, Lord, somehow You spoke to them; they raised up their hands. They made--they made, as it was, a decision. They want to... They--they--they want something real; and I'm offering my prayer in their behalf. Grant it to each one, Lord.
Be with us now, forgiving our sin, healing our sickness, and giving us the deliverance that we need.


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