<TITLE>05. Par 49-62</TITLE>L-49 That, Christ keeps all His Words. He has to. He has to do it. See? I don't have to do it; I'm a mortal, subject to mistakes. He is immortal, infallible. He has to keep His. See? But I don't have to keep mine. You don't have to keep yours. But He does. Oh, doesn't that place something in you, to know that He's--He's absolutely bound to that Word? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-50   And this week, how we have come through the Bible, with those prophets and patriarchs, and each time show that when the church got away from that, God sent someone right down and shook them right back to that Word again, lining up the church. It's always been. That's God's policy. He chose men to do so.

L-51 Now, if He had chose the stars to preach the Gospel, it'd been done a long time ago. They'd never got out of His will. If He'd chose the--the sun to preach it, or the--the winds to preach it, they'd never have got out of His will. See?

L-52 But we're on the basis of free moral agency. We can act the way we want to. And that's the reason that we been such a heartache to Him. Always this way, and wanting to inject our own ways, and get away from His way. See?

L-53 And I--I have said before, man is constantly praising God for what He has done. And he's always saying what He will do. And then, at the same time, ignoring what He's doing. See?

L-54   Man will say, "Oh, God opened up the Red Sea. Yes. Glory to God! That's right." "Yes, Jesus is coming again. Hallelujah! That's right." But, talk about Him today? "Ah, that was for another day." See? See? Always what He has done, what He will do, and ignore what He's doing.

L-55 That's the same conditions that Jesus Christ found when He come to the earth. Exactly. God had promised what He had did. And here He was, standing before them, and they didn't know Him. "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not." That's right.

L-56 "But as many as did receive Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God." That's the glorious part.

L-57   It was some time ago, a little vision I would like to speak to you about. And I don't know, I maybe never said it but just to an individual somewhere. But I--I just lost one of the greatest persons on this earth, to me, my mother.

L-58 And I--I love my mother. How that I'd see her get away from the table, when we were so poor, had nothing to eat! And she... Papa would bring in some bread, where he would sweep out a store, or something, and they'd pour the coffee over it, then put sugar on top of that. And mother would act like she wasn't hungry, so that us kids could have something to eat. Oh, I--I can never forget that. See? And the many times that she'd pick me up, and the things she did for me. But, you know, God is--is just so full of mercy. He understands all those things, when He has to take them. And I--I love Him for it.

L-59   It's always been, that, before any of my people die, I see it before it happened, in the vision.

L-60 I seen my brother, when I was only about eighteen, nineteen years old. I seen him before he left. I wasn't even a Christian, but I saw the vision come before me, seen my brother go.
I seen my father when he went.

L-61 Howard, many of you remembers Howard. "Howard," you remember me, two years before it happened, I said, "Howard, I seen your place marked. You're next." I said, "Get right, brother, because you're going to go next." And he did, just exactly. And then, here some time ago...

L-62   Now, I hope this don't sound sacrilegious, but, just to show the--the concern of God. God is always concerned in little things, the same as big things. I want to say this for the benefit of some of these fine preachers. That may be... And I throw myself in it.


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