<TITLE>01. Par 1-11</TITLE>63-0113M, Letting Off Pressure, Church Of God, Phoenix, AZ, 80 min
L-1       Good morning, friend. I was just speaking to the pastor just now. And it's such a privilege to come in these little havens of rest like this. You just feel like, well, just setting down and listening to the services. And--and there is something about this little spot. I said to my son, coming around the building a few moments ago, that you just look like... I just--I just like to come here and set down and just listen a while, and listen what others has got to say. We ministers know that that's a great time for us. Usually we're always having to do the talking, somebody listening to us. But we like to set down and listen too.

L-2 You got a fine pastor, and this lovely little choir here, and the songs of Zion. The place is just pretty and not too elaborate, and just--just what we'd call homey. And so I--I like that, real well. God ever richly bless you all. Hmm.

L-3   I was... thought in my heart, to hear this little sister here, a while ago, sixty-five years of service for the Lord. I thought I was about old enough to quit, but I guess I'm not, after this. Here is someone been serving Him sixty-five years. That would be about, well, I guess about twelve, fourteen years 'fore I was born, she was serving Him. So, that's wonderful.

L-4 I was speaking at a funeral service, other day, for a little old lady, that about eighty-five years old, that went to meet the Lord. And--and she was a sweet little old woman.

L-5 You that read my life story, the... where I asked the boy if he'd save me that suit, you know, that he had one of these little Boy Scout suits. And I always wanted to be a soldier, so I asked him if he'd save it for me after he wore it out, and he promised he would. And when I went to get it, he only had one legging left. And that was... I wore that legging to school. And it was...

L-6   That was his mother that just passed away, Mrs. Ford. And they're among the poorest of poor people. Lloyd, the boy who gave me the legging, we've been chums since little boys. He's just a little older than I. And I said to him, "Lloyd, what would you want me to take the--the funeral text from?"

L-7 And he said, "Brother Billy," he said, "just... I--I would like for you to speak this, if it's the will of the Lord, just some assurance that my mother will be back again."
I said, "Very well."

L-8 So I took the text from over in Job, "If a man die, shall he live again?" And I taken it from the... I believe, Job 14, I think it is. And how Job seen the... How the botany life, when it died, it lived again. So I took the subject of, "Anything that lives to the will and purpose of God has a resurrection."

L-9 And being a missionary, and traveling the world, I've had the privilege of seeing many gods and their... the philosophies of life, and what people worship. And in all of it, that's about all it is, a philosophy, outside of Christianity. Christianity has the truth.

L-10   Now, we know that this world is a creation. And before there can be a creation, there has to be a Creator of that creation. And this Creator expresses Himself in the creation. If we did not even have a Bible, we would still know that--that--that, the truth, just as we do. This Bible only sets it in order.

L-11 Now, God, creating the creation, is expressing Himself back in the creation. And He is not a God just of one solid Sears and Roebuck Harmony House. He--He--He is a God of variety. He makes big hills, and little hills; and He makes the deserts, and--and He makes lakes; and He makes little trees, and big trees; and white flowers, and red flowers; and makes little men, and big men; and red-headed women, and black-headed women. And He--He makes us different, 'cause He wants us that way. He's a God of variety. And He makes some rich, and some poor, some in between. But we got a place to serve God, and that's the place that He's placed us in, if we'll just abide in that place.


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