<TITLE>04. Par 27-36</TITLE>L-27   And we are anticipating this coming meeting over at the Ramada tomorrow night, and we want to check our own lives tonight and see where we are short, so that we'll be instruments in Thy hand, clay molded and shaped by the God of Heaven, that we might be able to anticipate in this great event that's coming to pass, that we're putting forth for no other cause but for the Kingdom's sake and the glory of God. Bless our feeble efforts of the week, Lord, trying to stir, amongst the people, the realization of the hour we're living.

L-28 Speak to us tonight, through the reading of the Word, and may You take the text and--and reveal the context in the way that the Holy Spirit would have us to know it. And all praise shall be Thine. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-29   As many people like to kind of keep down texts, and thinking of times they'd like to refer back to it. And many times, ministers, like I do, myself, we--we keep a text down sometimes, to refer to it. Some minister spoke on it, and we... Some little thought caught our mind. And we like to refer back to it, sometimes, to say, "Well, that's... I seen something while they were saying it." That's all right.

L-30 Now, we want to read tonight, in the Bible, out of the book of the Philippian letter, Paul writing to the Philippians, in the 2nd chapter, 5 to 8. We'd like to read this for a text, while you read with us, or give us your undivided attention as we endeavor to read It.

L-31   Now, while you're turning to the place in the Scripture, I'd like to say it's been granted me, your brother, the privilege of speaking this coming Sunday afternoon at the convention. It was my intention of being there now the rest of the week, and setting out somewhere in the audience, or somewhere, listening and filling up and feeding my own soul on the Word of God, as our brethren will bring it, and the testimonies of the businessmen. And hoping to see you all there. The meeting is on the afternoon, so the churches will be closed, all around. You, you'll be more than welcome to come. We're expecting you, that and every other meeting.

L-32 Now in Philippians 2:5, we read.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.

L-33   May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. I would like to take, for a few minutes of your time, on what I would call, or like to say, a text called: Identification. Identifying, identified in the likeness of Bible characters! Being identified in the likeness of Bible characters! And tonight, as I have thought, in approach to this, after we have this week been talking of His Coming, and how that the Church should make Itself ready.

L-34 Today as I sat in the room, I had something upon my mind I wanted to speak on tonight, "The supreme Sacrifice." But, seemed, the Holy Spirit seemed to kind of move me sideways from that, over into another channel of thinking. All ministers knows what that is. You, you think you've got something you want to say, and then, all of a sudden, you feel that you should say something else, maybe contrary. Maybe it's just for one person. I don't know. But, I'm old enough in Christ, to know to follow the leading of the Spirit. What the Spirit says do, do it.

L-35   I'm sure tonight that we ought to find ourselves somewhere in some character of the Bible, so that we would know the outcome of that character and know what our outcome will be.

L-36 Reminds me of a little story I heard one time, of a--a lady, had brought her little boy from--from out in the country somewhere, that they lived, into the city, to--to visit his grandmother. And the little boy, living back...


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