<TITLE>01. Par 1-8</TITLE>63-0116, The Evening Messenger, Pentecostal Church Of God, Mesa, AZ, 134 min
L-1      Thank you, very much. The Lord bless you.
You may be seated.

L-2 My son was up today, and he said, "Dad, I wish we'd seen that church before we started building ours, it's such a pretty place." And he talked about... Said, "I have never met the minister yet, but if he's as nice a person as his wife, certainly is a nice person." So we're happy to be here.

L-3 And I--I'm looking forward to the--the meeting tonight, that God a-pouring out His blessings upon us and helping us.

L-4   Now we're... I just got in, and I heard a Brother Williams, I believe, saying something about being at the Ramada. And I guess the announcements has done been made, of about that. Usually they take care of that before I get in. And we're certainly looking forward to a great time down at the convention. And my part here is just kind of going around and meeting the brethren and fellowshipping amongst the people, and praying that God will give us a--a right kind of a stir, and then we can go right straight into the Ramada in a great meeting. And so we're trying to visit all the churches that possibly can, until that time. And we're having a great time. We certainly are having a wonderful time with the fellowship of among our brethren.

L-5   And usually I'm... Anybody knows I'm not much of a preacher, I'm just kind of a spare tire. But I--I... My ministry is praying for the sick. And I... We have been so crowded of nights, and things, till we can hardly get enough room to do so. And we're going to try if we... when we get into places where we can, in here, to give out some cards and bring the people in and pray for them. But having one night meeting at a time, what you wouldn't get tonight and then they'd press them plumb down somewhere else the next night, and way back over somewhere else, so that way I've just kind of made a--a little--a little talk each night for the people, and best that I can to kind of... to the honor and glory of Jesus Christ, and to Whom we all love and believe, and our fellowshipping together.

L-6   I guess you heard the accident on the corner, just a few moments ago. I don't know whether the man was killed, or ever who it was, the car come through. We just stopped, just a word of prayer, a few moments ago. About two blocks above here there was someone had been hit sideways and knocked all the way up in the street. And a large person was covered over out there. And the cops was there, but I don't think the ambulance had ever gotten there yet. They must... If it wasn't killed, it certainly was... Hit on this side and knocked all the way through the door on the other side, so it must have been a terrific blow. You know, it just...

L-7   We must serve God every minute. We don't know what time--we don't know what time that those things could happen. Maybe we think it won't be us, but you know it can be, you know. So, I believe Jesus said, "Be prepared, for we don't know what minute or hour that we may be called on." And then we'll go to a place where they don't have accidents, and no troubles. We are so glad there's a place like that in promise.

L-8 You know, the very thought, tonight, of--of seeing that we would long for a place like that, that shows there is a place like that. See? And we know that all negatives, all shadows, there has to be something to make a shadow. A shadow is a reflection. So if there's a life like this, it proves that it's a shadow, then there's a real life somewhere it's reflecting of. See? You notice a tree, how beautiful a tree is. And you know what that is? It's the negative type of the shadow of the Tree of Life in Heaven.


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