<TITLE>08. Par 55-60</TITLE>L-55   Those people had seen the hand of God. And that night of the communion, they took it with... in desperation, because they knowed that something was fixing to happen. And we know something is fixing to happen. And remember, the Coming of the Lord will be a sudden, secret going away. He'll come and take Her like a thief in the night. And to think that if somebody, all of a sudden, there is members of our family gone, and you're left behind! It should throw us into desperation, that, by the grace of God, we'll not be left back behind. "If there's anything I don't want... Don't, don't leave me, Lord."

L-56 A few days ago I was hearing Mel Johnson sing that song:
Remember me when tears are falling down, yes,
Remember me when friends are not around;
And when I cross over this river of Jordan,
When You're calling the roll, remember me.

L-57   And on the Lamb's Book of Life, I want my name wrote. I want Him to remember me when the roll call. And it throws me into desperation, that is, like Paul said, "After I have preached the Gospel shall I be a--a stowaway, shall I be a--a castoff?" It could happen. So it throws me into a desperate stage, desperation, to think of, after all these years of preaching, would I--could I... a place come where I could fail Him? What's the next move? What must I do next? And it throws me into a nervous stage. And what can I do? It throws me to the mountains and to the valleys. And it's hard, because, when I'm with the people, I've got to be all things to all men, that I might win some to Christ, yet with that Token always before me. See?

L-58   And I see things that's coming up, and you can't tell the people. You see different things, and you are forbidden. Them visions that they call on, and sometimes they'd be sorry if you did tell them, and you know better than to do it. And then you go so far in visions till everything becomes a vision, and it throws you into a nervous stage. You--you look and say, "Now am I in a vision?" Like setting right here, "Is this a vision? Where am I really standing at?" See, you--you overwork yourself, you overtax yourself. And you find out things about people that you wish you didn't know. The people that desires these things, to know these things, they don't realize what that type of ministry cost. You don't know what goes with it. Then it throws into desperation, "Lord God, I know I'm going to have to answer."

L-59   Jack Moore said to me one time, "I'd hate to have to answer like you will have to, at the Day of the Judgment." Said, "God has put these people into your hands, and you're going to give an account for every one of them. You're going to answer for your ministry." That's been about fifteen years ago, or maybe eighteen. And since then, I've been in desperation. What will I do?
"Let me say only what You say, Lord. Let me tell them what's the Truth, or don't say nothing." It throws me in desperation.

L-60   Then seeing these signs coming, seeing the Holy Spirit take us out there, and bring these Seals, and lay them in like that. Bring the Church Ages and lay them in, then come down in a great big Pillar of Fire back there, and--and revealed Himself. Then come down on the next thing, on the Seven Seals, and revealed it. Even put it in the papers and magazines. Then come in and take the angels of God, them seven angels with seven Messages, and confirmed it exactly what the Bible said. Then, during that time, come up and bring in those Seals... those signs, flashes of the end time, and bring it up to the people and tell them what it is, and all about it, and the Lord working right there showing Himself present. And then, right down like this morning, come up and require that Token on every person. Then, you're my people. You're the ones that I love, these and them is listening to the tapes, and so forth. Then you see what desperation it puts me in.


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