<TITLE>17. Par 175-181</TITLE>L-175   Oh, if I could get this little tabernacle... I love you. And I don't believe there is a man on earth that I could say I loved any better than Jack Moore, and, that's right, Young Brown, and Lyle, and these men here. I read an article today, that Anna Jean wrote, I was going to ask her permission to reprint it again, of the nice things that they can say. And--and, look, but if you don't wake up, quickly, it's going to be too late. The Life Tabernacle, I'm part of you, and that's the reason I cry out. Year by year, I find it cooling. You might not notice it, you live right in it, but stay on the field and then return back with the memories of the year before. Didn't I tell you that out there in that little tent, one night, "From this hour on"? What'd I say about Shreveport when that woman give me that dirty write-up that time?

L-176   Remember what I said that time about the United States, three or four years ago, five, then run all through the papers? I said, "This year the United States will accept the Gospel or they'll never do it." They've declined since that time. And there will never be a--a big revival in America no more like that. If you believe me to be a prophet, you remember that's the Word of the Lord. Just watch and see if it isn't dying. The churches are dying. They are withering away. And it kills me, inside of me, to know that, men and women that I love better than I love my own life, that I've give my life.

L-177   I've come among you as your brother, not your God; your brother, not your enemy; your brother! I've told you the Truth, and God has declared the same. With every word I've preached, He's declared it to be the... exactly the Truth. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Then why not accept It, brother, sister? In the love of Jesus Christ, why don't you accept It? If you will just believe that to be the Truth, just accept It to be the Truth, that's all I ask you to do.

L-178   Let's bow our heads just a moment. I'm going to stop there on them notes right there. I said I was going to make an altar call, and let Billy Paul give out prayer cards. We didn't have any prayer cards, tonight, it was too late to give them out. I--I forgot my promise. I'll have him here tomorrow night, about six o'clock. We don't need the prayer cards, anyhow. I've always tried to get you away from that tradition, always of laying hands on like the Jews did. Jairus said, "Come lay Your hands on my daughter and she'll live." The Roman said, "Just speak the word," that was the Gentile way of believing it.

L-179 If I've told you the Truth, now listen to this challenge; if I have told you the Truth, then I've got to stand here on this platform before you and tell you this. And what good does it do to tell you, if God isn't in it? And if it's God's Truth, He's--He's duty bound to back It up. He's got to back It up. He promised He would.

L-180   But are--are we going to sit numb like? Has the Spirit... Is it "Ichabod" on the Life Tabernacle? Has that been wrote across the tabernacle? Has that been wrote across the churches that I've been visiting across the nation? Is it so dark and dense now that that "one here and one there; one in the field, 'I'll take one,' and maybe one over across the other side of the world, and, 'I'll take one'"? "As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight souls were saved by water, so shall it be in the coming of the Son," have we reached that place?

L-181   Has the ministry of Jesus Christ, in this day, patterned the day that He was here when He preached first? When He was a young Galilean Prophet, everybody wanted Him in their church, when He healed the sick, and everything. But when He went to prophesying and rebuking them, and calling them "a bunch of vipers," right then He started declining, and finally led to His crucifixion, assassination.


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