<TITLE>09. Par 95-101</TITLE>L-95 Above everything, love God and love one another. And be humble with God and around one another, and God will bless us, and it's hard telling what He will do. Usually when a church begins to get in numbers and get to getting a little bigger, or something like that, then they get away from that real thing, the real thing.

L-96   Do you know what brought these things to pass, when I first started and the Lord appeared to me down on the river and told me that? And Brother Vayle saw that, I believe, in a paper in Canada, many years ago, where that Angel of the Lord appeared on the river down there, it was on Associated Press, "Mystic Light over local minister, while baptizing." And--and you know what did that? When we had the tent meeting just across the street, a tent that seated about, oh, twenty-five hundred people, ministers come from everywhere, and said, "Brother, come here a minute." I was just a boy, like, oh, just a kid. And they said, "How do you keep those people in one accord? They love one another till... I haven't seen people love one another."

L-97   That's the Lord. That's what this church was established upon, that godly, brotherly love for one another. I seen them even shake hands with one another, leaving a place, and cry like babies, to leave one another. They loved one another that well. And I could go to their house to visit, and times the Bible was laying open and stained with tears. Come in, at nighttime, where fathers and mothers was gathered together, and their little children around on the floor, kneeling around; and fathers and mothers on their knees, crying and praying. I'd stand at the door and wait and wait and wait. And they didn't stop praying, I'll just set down on the steps and start praying, myself, waiting for them, see. And that--that was. And they loved one another. They loved one another. We used to stand and sing that old song:
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred mind
Is like to that Above.
When we asunder part,
It give us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

L-98   I say this with great joy in my heart, to Christ. Many of them are sleeping around in these graves marked tonight, waiting for that great resurrection where we'll meet together again.

L-99 Let not that spirit ever depart from this place! If it ever does, then I don't care how eloquent your pastor might be, how well he might bring the Word of God, the Spirit of God is grieved away. See? When we can have all things in fellowship, in common, and love one another, then God will work with us.

L-100 And we're keeping time, that the people come by and say, "If you want to see a church that's really humble, a church that really loves God, drop in up there at that tabernacle one time and watch it. Look at the care they have for one another, the respect; when the Gospel is being preached, how reverent, how everything is just in order." Yes, then they can look and see what time we're living. You'll see the Spirit of God moving among you, great signs and wonders and things will be taking place. If the thing is working together, it's telling the time. But if it isn't working, then time is stopped, it won't tell the time no more. So if we want to know what time we're living, just start everybody working together in the Gospel, loving one another, loving God, and the hands itself will tell the time what we're living in. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. Amen. The Lord bless you, real richly.

L-101   Don't forget now, get around this week. And if you know any good, sick people that's coming in, tell them, when they come, say, "Dear, I want to ask you. We're having prayer for the sick, Sunday morning, over at the tabernacle. And you been sick for a while, now I want..."
"Well, I want to go. I've always wanted to go."


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