<TITLE>02. Par 11-19</TITLE>L-11 And we spoke on, there last night, a Message of... of having Him as an oasis, a place, remembering Him, what all He had done, when we come together, setting around in Heavenly places in Christ. And to remember the things that He did, and the things that He promised to do, how He promised He would meet with us. "Wherever two or three were assembled in His Name, that there He would be among us." Then, I thought the sovereignty of God was so marvelously displayed when He came right down among us, and proved Himself, that He was there with us again. That just makes it foolproof, that we're near the end. And those things He promised to do, right at the end, and we see it facing us now.

L-12   I presume, maybe, that most people here are--are saved people. And we are the ones who are praying and putting forth our effort now for the coming convention. And we must press with all that's in us, and do everything we can. Be sure that we speak to every sinner during the time of this convention. Approach every businessman, and every unsaved person, and those without Christ, without the Holy Spirit. We want to approach them with the Message, with the sane, solid Gospel approach to the people.

L-13 Let our lives be so salty, that others can watch the way we act and live, that they'll want to live that way, too. You know Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth." But if the salt has lost its testimony, its--its savor, its drawing power, then it can no more heal or save. Salt saves when it contacts, and we must--we must be God's contact. We are His point of contact, as Brother Roberts many times refers to putting his hand on the radio or something for a point of contact.

L-14   Now, you may hear me talking a little funny tonight, but last three or four nights I've had to take my upper voice. I--I... The other one is wore out. So, I'm talking up high, more from top of my mouth. It's not a put-on, but I've got to do it, to keep the bottom part from hurting. You know, God kind of makes us in a way, where, if one part wears down, we can catch another. Someone--someone... You know, a reserve.

L-15 And someone asked me, some, one time, said, "How can you walk so hard through the mountains and so forth?"

L-16 I said, "Well, I learned that, a little technique, long years ago, from the Indians. See? You can walk with your knees, don't use much, your hip, and let your hips rest. Then walk with your hip, and stride, and let your knees rest, you see. So just rest and walk, rest and walk, rest and walk.

L-17 That's the way you preach, with the upper then the lower, the upper and lower. Let one rest, the other.

L-18 Oh, God made a wonderful thing when He made a man! You know why? It was in His image that He made man. And so what more could be more wonderful than God?

L-19   I've been preaching so much on the--on the Coming of Christ in this age, I thought maybe it would be a good thing tonight to kind of settle down on some of these things I been talking about, and bring the--the seriousness of the condition of this day, into our presence, by the Gospel, and see how we are, ourselves, are fitted for this hour. How do we know? This may be the last convention that these Business Men will ever have. You know, this may be the last night that the First Assembly of God and all the rest of the churches throughout the country will be open. Tomorrow, it could happen, they're all closed. We don't know. This may be the last time the Bible is read to this audience. So, let us just kind of check up tonight and see where we're at, for the seriousness, for a little while.


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