<TITLE>03. Par 18-27</TITLE>L-18 But is that the hour yet? Has this arrived to this hour, and has these things meant that? I pray, with all that's within me, that it isn't. See? I pray that it isn't right, that it isn't that hour. It's going to be, but has it come to that time yet? See, that's what I wonder. Now, everybody understands, thoroughly, that I don't know? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] I just... Is it this time? If it is, God be merciful to us. But, if it isn't that time, let... it's going to come.

L-19   Now, as soon as we can, we got a great itinerary in front of us, the Lord willing. And I've got to go overseas, right after Christmas, in Europe and Asia; Europe, especially. And then I come back here to the United States, for a few services, and then I go back down into South Africa. I begin on the second of--of September, in Durban, and go from the second, I think, till about the tenth, and then I have three days to go from there to Johannesburg and begin again. But I think it's the month of April, we start in the Scandinavian countries, in Norway and Sweden and--and Finland, and--and Holland and Switzerland and Germany, and--and through Europe there. So be in prayer for us.

L-20   We have a few meetings here, Christmas time now, right after Christmas. By the way, we want to be here through Christmas, home. The kids wants to come home, through Christmas. And we--we love Arizona, but you know the--the thing that we miss, and just can't get over it, is this church and you people. No matter where we go, what we do, it's just... Kids, me, wife and all. There's just no place like this. That's right. There's just no place.

L-21 I've sailed the seven seas, and I--I've been everywhere, but there is no place that seems hallowed to me like this little spot right here. This is it. Just get away from it once, if you want to know. There is just something about here. I've preached all over the world, practically, and I've never, any time, any place, ever felt the Spirit of God, with freeness and things, like I do standing right here. This is it.

L-22 "God, let it..." As the day I laid that cornerstone over there, I said, "Lord God, don't let it fall."
People said, "In a two months, it'll be a garage."

L-23 I said, "Don't let it fall, Lord. Let it be standing, and people in here praising You when Jesus returns." I trust it'll be that way.

L-24   Now let us turn in the Bible now, and--and expect the Lord to give us of His blessings. And we want to read some Scriptures. I got some Scriptures wrote down here that I want to refer to, and some notes. And I want to read out of three places out of the Bible, and I'll give them to you, first. I want to read in Jude 5 and 6. Jude is just one Book, you know. And then I want to read Second Peter the 2nd chapter, 4 and 5. Then I want to read First Peter, 3:18 to 20.

L-25 And my subject this morning, the Lord willing, is: Souls That Are In Prison Now. Uh-huh. Souls That Are In Prison Now, shut up, forever condemned. Never, there's no way of being saved, see, souls that have been imprisoned now.

L-26   Now let's read over in the Book of Jude, first. I believe I have marked down here for the first place, in Jude; and then over in Second Peter, and then--then over in First Peter. Now, Jude, I would like to read it all; but just to save time, because it's ten-thirty already, I'm going to begin with the 5th verse. Now, Jude was a brother, foster brother, of Jesus Christ, as we all know. See? He was Joseph's son.
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them that believed not.

L-27 Saved them, first, brought them out of Egypt, and then had to destroy them because they didn't continue with their message, you see.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting change un-... chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.


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