<TITLE>02. Par 8-13</TITLE>L-8   Now, tonight, without a healing service, I think, I should get out a little earlier tonight. I--I been saying, every night, "I'm going to try to let you out about nine-thirty." And pretty near that time now, and so, nine o'clock, about five minutes of. And then time I get through, and then holding you this morning about two hours, I'll tell you, you'll probably be wore out and be glad when I leave the city tomorrow night. But I wish I could just bring myself down to them twenty-minute talks. But I only just have to keep speaking until that I get tired, and I know you're wore out by that time. So then I just never get finished; I just quit and go in, rest a while.

L-9   Now, tonight, I want you to turn in your Bibles, to the Isaiah, the Book of Isaiah, the--the 6th chapter of Isaiah. And now before we read, we would ask God to bless His Word and to--to make It real to us, as we bow our heads just a moment. Well, we'll read the Word first, and then listen close now as we read.
In the year that king Uzziah died I was... I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his trail filled the temple.
And above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD God of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this has touched thy lips: and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is purged.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Who shall I send, and who shall go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

L-10   Let us pray. Lord Jesus, we are not sufficient to break into this most gracious text, tonight, but we ask Your help now, Lord, for no other purpose but that the--the Gospel might be once more preached in the city of Chicago. Grant it, Lord. And may the--the influence be an everlasting influence. Grant it. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-11 Now I want to take a text from this, of: Influence. You know, there is something another that we are, we, what we do, we influence somebody else by what we do, the way we act, the way we talk, the way we live. And all that we do, we influence someone else.

L-12   And now, you know, many people won't go to church. They say... Well, they've got a wrong impression of church. They think it's the--the women down there are--are witches, and the--the men are--are black-robed demons, and they just got the wrong idea about it. But I tell you what they do do, they will watch your life to see what you do. I believe it was Paul that said, "We are written epistles of God, read of all men." When you're on the street, and when you're at your work, and wherever you are, somebody is watching you.

L-13   And especially after you have said and made your confession that you are a Christian, they'll watch you much closer then, and that gives an influence to--to the people that's around about you. And we should watch what we do. Because, if we produce the wrong influence, then we bring reproach, not so much upon ourselves, but upon what we claim to be: Christians. We bring it upon Christ. And no one, if we would think, you would never want to bring reproach upon Christ. But the wrong act, at the wrong time, will certainly cause a wrong reflection towards the person that's watching you. And everybody is watched, when you profess to be a Christian.


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