<TITLE>04. Par 36-48</TITLE>L-36   Now, as a young Christian, I've always made this statement. I was glad God got a hold of me before the church did. Hard telling what I'd have been. But I--I was thankful of the leadership and the direct contact that the Holy Spirit impressed my life with, before I ever surrendered it. For, as a little lad, I knew there was Something. He had talked, and I'd talk to Him. He talked back to me. And I begin to notice that the things that He told me, as a little lad, that they begin to happening just exactly the way He said they'd do. So I knowed it had to be true.

L-37   Now, I'm an old man now. And I--I have never one time... And can call the world to--to a standstill, and ask them. "Put your finger on one thing that He ever told me, in THUS SAITH THE LORD, in the Name of the Lord, but what was absolutely the truth and fact, and come to pass, out of the thousands times thousands of things." What does...

L-38 What am I saying that for? See, I've put us all as volcanic dust. But it's the promise of God's Word. Therefore, I cannot have confidence in myself. You cannot have confidence in yourself. But, together, we can have confidence in What has taken over ourselves. The Holy Spirit has taken us over. We must have confidence in That. And as we place our confidence in That, then the results comes.

L-39   It would be out of reason for me to try to--to even scratch the surface of telling you some of the things that the Holy Spirit has done in my own broken-up life, my days. I say this with His Bible open, His Word. And that's what He is. He is the Word.

L-40 See, this--this Seed here comes into the volcanic ash, in a way of a spiritual Being. God comes in as Spirit and operates through the ash. So, it's not man. It's God.

L-41 And if I should set down, and take time to write out the things that I have seen Him do, it would make a volume of books. And to think of it here, fifty-three years old, and can say before God, His Church, and the Bible, in the presence of this group, that: I have not one time ever seen It fail; perfectly on the mark, every time.

L-42   Exception, of the other day when I come westward. You've played the tape, many of you, I guess, and you understand. I don't know what. I'm waiting. I'm here now. I don't know why. I'm just waiting.

L-43 It may be my going-home time. It looks very much that way. If it is, there will rise somebody after me, that'll take the Message on. He'll be an odd person, but he'll rise after this and take the Message on. And you listen to it. As long as it's Scripture, stay with it.

L-44 If it isn't, there is coming another portion now, for I do believe that we're living in the last days, and I am thankful that I have lived in this day. I wouldn't trade this day for no day. This is the most glorious day that's ever been on the earth. There is no other day that's ever taken this day.

L-45 Oh, what would Moses, Elijah, Paul, Silas, those great heroes of faith, in the days gone by, could rise up and pick up a history book, and look exactly what they had prophesied about, come to pass, and see where we're at now? Why, they'd have them in jail, in a hour. Certainly. They would be like wild men, up-and-down the streets, just as hard as they could go, blasting the Gospel. "The time is at hand." Then we see, tonight, that we fall very short of the glory of God.

L-46   But I would like to rehearse just an instant, to kind of get the church...

L-47 By the way, did Billy Paul give out prayer cards in this church tonight? I just come from Tucson a few minutes ago. [Someone says, "Yes."--Ed.] He--he gave out cards. Now, that's going to be an awful way of trying to bring them by. We'll try it.

L-48 I won't take too long, just giving testimony upon this Scripture.


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