<TITLE>01. Par 1-10</TITLE>63-0112, Influence, Ramada Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 117 min
L-1      Morning, very nice to be here this morning, to hear this fine report of how the Lord's work is growing. That's what we're here for. That's what we're happy to always hear, the work of the Lord increasing.

L-2 And when I got up this morning, I--I thought I did you an evil, I--I brought some Indiana weather down to visit you. I, for--for my first time, I seen ice in Phoenix; outside of the ice house, you know. But--but this was on the street this morning, ice. My wife got up and she said, "Is this Phoenix?"

L-3 I said, "I think so." I said, "I didn't think we come in wrong last night." But it was certainly surprising to see ice in Phoenix. "Well," I said, "if you can just get roused up enough to come over to the breakfast, the ice will all melt over there, 'cause the Presence of the Lord always melts away all the coldness."

L-4   So glad to be here this morning with Brother and Sister Williams, and Brother Rose, and all the staff. And so happy to be back at the Ramada again. There is something about this place. I see it along the roads in my travel, I think about the meetings I been in here, before, of the Ramada. And we're here now to start a series of meetings with our brethren around through the valley, prior to the--the businessmen's convention.

L-5 And how many ministers are here this morning? Let's see your hands, everywhere. Oh, this is... Well, we're in business all right. We're still let them know that we're in business, too, the greatest business in the world, saving souls. And we ministers are certainly happy this morning to join hands with this staff of--of Christian laymen, too, for helpers and partners in this work, to help save souls to the Kingdom of God. So grateful for this effort!

L-6   I was listening the other day on a radio broadcast, as I was driving along, and there was an attorney that said a--a great remark that I thought was outstanding. He said, "How it is, that, in this day, that we know that we're facing the end time," he said, "and to see laymen and ministers just settle down and not get their righteous indignation stirred, to see the world so grossed in sin as it is, that both minister and laymen should be pressing every moment, to the Coming of the Lord, so close at hand. And we don't seem to be enthused about it, as we should be." I was speaking the other day on the subject of being sincere.

L-7 Now, we believe, as full Gospel people, that we have the Truth, the Truth of the Gospel. We realize that there's much we can improve on, on this.

L-8 And we're looking forward to the time that when... all the loose ends of these great revivals that's come across the world in the last few centuries, well, since the falling away of the church, and then the dark age. And then these great warriors came forth, for Truth, and they would live long enough to get it kind of halfway established, and then little loose ends would run out.

L-9   We're told, in Revelation 10, that there'll be a messenger in the last day, will gather up these little ends and will bring them together. And then the mystery of God would be finished, at the sounding of this angel, which was a messenger of the earth. Then One came down from Heaven, with His hands up, rainbow over His head, and swore that there would be time no more; an Angel taking an oath. And when we see this thing is materializing, oh, how sincere we should be.

L-10 All promises of God are true, but they're on condition. No matter how fundamentally right we are, we've got to approach it in the right way. Now, men can be fundamentally right, and still not receive the blessings of God because it's approached in the wrong way. It goes upon conditions.


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