<TITLE>05. Par 38-50</TITLE>L-38   And, Father, we as His servants, with His Spirit in us, every Christian in here tonight, hold hisself before the sinner: "God, be merciful to them." We cry for the sick and the needy, for those precious hands, some of them old, and some young, and some middle-aged, raising their hands. You know all about that, Lord. We pray that You'll answer according to Your riches in glory.

L-39 May there be many tonight, Lord, go away from here, that come in, that's sick, may they go away, well, healed. Just something take place, they can't even explain it, but they know that they're well.

L-40 May those who are wayward go away justified, Lord, knowing that they've come back and picked up Christ where they left Him at. May they go, make restitutions. Grant, Lord, that those who have never come will find that precious freedom of being free, turned out of the cage, no more bound by the things of the world and the cares of this life, but has been made free in Christ. Grant it, Father.

L-41 Bless all we have need of now, and bless Thy Word and servant, and we'll give Thee praise. In Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen.

L-42   Now, if we should read a text of the Scripture, or a Scripture for a text, rather, First Corinthians the 14th chapter, the 8th verse, reads like this, in First Corinthians 14:8.
For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?

L-43 This would be enough text that we could be preaching two weeks from now on it, and yet never touch the edges of it. There is something about the Word that's inspired. You're constantly on that one text. You can tie the entire Bible with it. That's correct.

L-44   One day a fellow asked me, said, "How can you take the same text?"
I said, "Oh, my! You take a context of anything from it."

L-45 I picked up a little three-leaf clover laying on the ground, and held it up. The man is setting here tonight, from Tucson. And we was over in Pasadena, California. And I said, "I could take this three-leaf clover and preach twenty-five years on it: how it is a life, that's in it; how, the three blades, being the trinity in One. And, oh, oh, there's just so many things that we could say about it.

L-46 And how about a Scripture? It's God's Word. It's Eternal. It--it had... It has no end. It just keeps going on, on, on. It's a refuge to us.

L-47 And now tonight I want to speak on this: A Trumpet Gives An Uncertain Sound.

L-48   In thinking of it, just a few moments ago, when I was thinking on the... that income tax affair, I thought, "There is hardly anything today that's certain. Everything has got such an uncertainty to it." And anything that's uncertain cannot be trusted. Anything that's uncertain cannot be trusted. You stay away from it if it's not certain.

L-49 If you've got a business; and, which, we got businessmen present, maybe many of them. If you are running a business that's not certain, you're not going to put very much in it, because the--the dividend is uncertain, and you wouldn't make very much investment in it. Or, if you're a good, shrewd businessman, you'll wait and search out, if you got some money to invest, until you find something that's certain, something that's reliable, something that you can depend on. Because, you don't want to lose that little money that you've saved up to, because with that you have to make your living, out of the remuneration from--from the dividends that's drawed on this investment. Why, you have to--to get something to live by.

L-50   And this little money that you got saved up, don't put it in your pocket and leave it there, because thieves will steal it. See? Don't, don't do that. If you got it, invest it in something. And then you want to be sure of the certainty of your investment. If you don't, why, don't invest it, at all.


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