<TITLE>02. Par 14-23</TITLE>L-14 In these sharp, cutting Messages, if I have intentionally tried to hurt somebody, God forgive me. I wouldn't do that, for nothing. But yet I'm a prisoner to this Word, see, I--I must stay right with It. I don't speak hard things to--to make people feel bad. I speak things sharp, sometimes, to make people look, see, an exclamatory, "Oh, look!" See, to make them look at it, to see. Then if you get them, maybe sometimes it provokes them. And about nine times out of ten, if they get a little bit provoked, they'll go to searching the Scriptures, and God does the rest of it then, you see. Just only look at the Scriptures. If I ever say anything that's contrary to the Scriptures, you're duty bound to come tell me about it, write me, or some way to let me know. And that's the reason I feel duty bound to you, to explain the Scriptures. Just not try to explain Them; just say the way they are. That's what They say. Believe it, believe it like that.

L-15   Now, I certainly appreciate the visit. I come to you, tired. I've just been having interviews and meetings, and so forth, till kind of wore out. And two meetings a day kind of gets, well, I'm just a little farther up the road than I used to be. I've just passed twenty-five, you know, second time. That's right.

L-16 Well, there is only one regret, that, I didn't know Him earlier in life. I was preaching the Gospel when I was about, suppose, about twenty-two years old, and I wish I'd have started preaching when I was able to talk, just a little boy. I--I--I missed all those precious years. For someone young here, I trust that you'll take where I made my mistake, from about ten years old, on to twenty-one or twenty-two, I trust that you'll start earlier, so you won't have to look back at the regret that I look to.

L-17   Lord be with you, is my prayer. And I trust that something that the Lord Jesus has let me do, by a gift...

L-18 You see, I'm not, couldn't say I'm a preacher, see, because I'm, first place, I'm not eloquent enough, I have no education. That why I couldn't say of just being a--a "preacher." Because, when a man says, "a minister," right quick they look for a college degree, they look for some great Doctor of Divinity, or something. And then when you speak "preacher," then use my words, my poor grammar, that kind of look casted down.

L-19 But the Lord sent me to pray for His sick children. And in there, what I do know about Him, I love to express it with all my heart. If I make mistakes, you pray for me. I'm not infallible. I'm your brother. And now I trust that God has done something; if He hasn't, may He do it yet tonight, speak some word or something that will cause you to believe on Him.

L-20   Someone wanted to give me a gift here not long ago, which, it was quite a sum of money. And I said, "I--I--I can't take it." I said, "I--I wouldn't know what to do with it, see," I said. They said... Well, well, it was a thousand dollars, see. And I said, "I wouldn't know what to do with it."

L-21 They said, "Well, we want this personally. We don't want this to the church."

L-22 It don't go to the church. This is a foundation. See, it goes to the church, by the name of the church, but it's a set-aside fund for overseas only. See? And therefore, it, the--the gifts are untaxable, so then it must be used for that. Trustee board, trustees are setting right here tonight, listening at me. And that's true. And I said...
They said, "We want this for you and your family."

L-23 It was a check. I couldn't take it, see. I said, "I--I can't do that." I said, "Do you want to make me happy?"
Said, "Sure."
I said, "Can I do with it whatever I want to?"
"Yeah."


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