<TITLE>01. Par 1-8</TITLE>63-1028, Pardon, Ramada Inn, Tucson, AZ, 88 min
L-1      Let us remain standing just a moment for prayer. Let us bow our heads now.

L-2 Our Heavenly Father, we deem this such a great privilege to stand here among the saved, and can sing this glorious old hymn of the Church, "Lord, I believe." To see the Faith of our fathers still living in the hearts of His children, down through the ages. And as the song has just told us, "We are on our way to Canaan's Land." We pray, Father, tonight, if there be some here who has not made that decision yet, that's not come to the place that--that they can just only believe the Word, I pray that this will be the night that they'll make that final say and accept Christ as Saviour, be filled with His Spirit.

L-3 We thank Thee for this group that's called the Full Gospel Business Men, and for what it stands for, for righteousness. We're happy to know that in our land is men, in the business world, who takes time to serve You, to tell others, spending their--their money and their time to help others along the way, becoming citizens of the Kingdom of God.

L-4   We thank Thee for our minister brothers here tonight, those who are holding the torch-light, to show this darkened world there is a road that leads to Glory, for every member of the Church of the living God, and for those who have come in, Lord, newcomers. We pray now that as we endeavor to open the Word, that You will divide It to the people as we have need of. And when the service is closed, tonight, and we go home, may there be newborn babes added to the Kingdom. Or, maybe there is someone here tonight, Lord, who is very sick and needs the touch of the Great Physician, may they receive it tonight. Grant it, Lord. And we'll humbly give Thee the praise, for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
May be seated.

L-5   It's one of the greatest times of my life, is when I get to stand before people, to speak about the joy of my life, Jesus Christ, what He means to me, and then to have the privilege of sharing this joy with someone else who has never had this joy. I was speaking the other day. I used to be a boy preacher. This is thirty-three years in the ministry. And I lived upon the reputation of a boy preacher. But now I've passed that time, and now I'm becoming the old preacher.

L-6 But, each day, He, as the song said, "He grows still sweeter than He was the day before." As I begin to, crossed over the halfway mark and looking towards the setting of the sun, Christ becomes more to me, day by day. And when I have these privilege, stand before business men and women of the communities, and to speak to them about something that means more to them than--than anything in the world, that is, Eternal Life. I do not think there is anything any greater, than that I could think of, than Eternal Life.

L-7   When you're young, you begin to think about, well, as a boy you're playing tops, and the little girl is cutting paper dolls. After while, it's your education. Then, are you going to marry the girl with brown eyes or blue? And then the house is to be paid for, the children is to be educated. And where you at?

L-8 But I'm so glad that there is something that's real, after this is all over. Then you enter in to something that means more than these other things. Which, they are--they are essential. Certainly they are, to who is going to be the mother of our... and father of our children, and our homes and so forth, and the education of the children. But, even that, all perishes. It goes. But Life Eternal is the greatest thing I know of. It satisfied me when I was a young boy. It satisfies me now when I'm a middle-aged man. And I'm sure when the curtains are falling around my life, I'll be happy to go meet the One that I've spent my life for.


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