<TITLE>09. Par 73-81</TITLE>L-73 Now we can do that. We've seen many things, but don't you never think that we're so secure that God can't put judgment upon us, see. See?

L-74   Remember, don't try to impersonate anyone else. Be just what you are. If God made you a pentecostal, you be a real one, you see. If--if God... Don't be ashamed of it. I'm not ashamed to be a human being. I'm not ashamed to be an American. I--I'm not ashamed to be a minister. I'm not ashamed of the Gospel that I preach. Because...

L-75 I know many of them think that I've lost my mind. Even my good old righteous mother, that died a few years ago. When I first received the Holy Ghost, there was no one in our country knowed anything about It. And I was just a local, little, young Baptist preacher about twenty years old. But when I received the Holy Ghost, my mother said, "That boy has lost his mind." See? But no matter what mother thought, I had found that Pearl of great price. It might have seemed like that to her, but to me It was real. See, It was. It was the genuine something that--that I had found in God.

L-76   Because, I always believed, as a boy, that this was the Word of God, and It could never change. Jesus said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Words shall never be changed. It shall never pass away." You can't substitute anything to It. It's just the way It's written, and that's the way we believe It. Don't add nothing, or take nothing from It. You know, over in the Book of the Revelation, It said, "Whosoever shall add a word, or take anything out of this Book, (what?) the curse would be upon him." So just stay it just the way It is, and believe It like that, and God will honor it.

L-77   Now he was smitten because of his uplifting of pride. Got the feeling that there was... he was the only one there was, and he would do what he wished to and nobody else could stop him.

L-78 We had a brother, not long ago, that I felt so sorry for him. Looked like everybody got down on him. They accused the brother of doing something wrong, which the newspaper accused it. But I--I got to thinking about that, accuse the man? I really took up for him, 'cause... I--I certainly didn't agree with him. But the man who wrote an article and put it in a magazine, that this man had said all these different things and done these things.

L-79   And one night at a meeting in--in Minneapolis, they told me that the writer of this magazine was there. And the article had just come through in Christian magazine, so I... It was a Christian digest. So I... They, they pointed the man out, to me, said, "That's him sitting there." And he had in this article, that this minister had wrote something, a book that the man did not write. I know it. A lady wrote that book, and I knew the lady. Biting Of Devils.

L-80 So I--I said, "Well, now, one thing that I would say. Now, I might disagree with the minister, but I think, if the--if the editor of this column, if he never checked his script no better than to say that this man wrote this article, and I know he did not do it, see, then I'm afraid a lot more things he said about this minister is wrong." And then I said this, "I would rather be found even wrong, by trying to get somebody saved, than trying to hinder somebody that's trying to get somebody saved." Yeah.

L-81 I'd rather take the man's place, at any time, than try to criticize or tear down what somebody else is building up, even though they--they had made an error or done something wrong. So we must watch, we influence others on what we do.


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