<TITLE>03. Par 22-29</TITLE>L-22   We're aiming to go back home. Kids are homesick, all of them wanting to go back. So I'm figuring on taking them back, Lord willing, maybe after service Saturday, and so go back. From there, I don't know. But I know as soon as that something happens within me, to make me feel towards people, different from what I do now. I had rejected the--the people, see, and I--I didn't want to have no more to do with them. You know what I mean, what I call "ricky, ricketta," they had the things that they had did. I preached with all the sincerity, and God had confirmed it in every way. "And if they didn't want to believe It, why, let them alone then."

L-23 I was going up there, to join up with Bud this coming fall, start outfitting up there. Wait in the wilderness, let my hair and beards grow out. And if the Lord wanted me to go anywhere, He'd send me a word, and I'd go down and do it.

L-24 And on the road, coming in the other day, He stopped me. And I seen where the... what I was coming to. I'm--I'm on my road to something else now. And I thought, when I got home, I'd make what we call a heart-to-heart talk, maybe put it on tape, and then and so that the public would see why the sudden change.

L-25   Now, you kids, let's just... Let's have a little word of prayer.

L-26 Lord Jesus, we are grateful for this time, to know that we're assembled here, the young and old, and the middle-age. And we have assembled, this side of Eternity, once more to speak about You and about the things that pertains to everlasting Life.

L-27 And these young ones setting in here tonight, some of them are graduating, some has already graduated. But I realize, Lord, something that happened just a few hours before that great shock, or great blast, had taken place in the mountain up there, north of Tucson, when the Angels of the Lord came down. I remember what was said, and--and especially about the young people. I pray Thee, Lord, to help us to understand. And may I be able to say something to these young folks, tonight, that will help them along the journey. For, Lord, we all need that help at this time.

L-28   Bless us together. Forgive our sins. And if anything that we've done since we've been out here, that's displeased You, we pray You forgive us for it. For we realize, today, that we have no--no guarantee of tomorrow. We don't know what tomorrow brings. We must be prepared today to meet tomorrow. And, Father God, there's only one way that we know to do this, that's, to prepare to see You, for by and by we realize that we're all going to do it. And we've got to meet it some time, either in peace, as a friend or child, or as an enemy. Far be it, Lord, that we'd be anything else but Your Own beloved children. Grant these things we ask, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-29   Today, while I was chopping weeds, real early this morning, I found a place in the Bible, I thought would be a good thing to read at this time. And it's a... may not be too dashing appropriate, but I thought just for... just a--just a few minutes, to talk. I want to read this out of the 18th chapter of Saint Luke. All four Gospel writers write of it. The 18th chapter and the 18th verse.
And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and... mother.
And... said, All these have I done, and kept them from my youth up.
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all... thou has, and distribute unto the poor,... thou shall have treasures in heaven:... come, follow me.


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