<TITLE>09. Par 66-74</TITLE>L-66 Oh, that line, demarcation, that line where men and women can so easily cross! That line that a teen-age boy or girl can cross, between judgment and mercy. All of us! The line that the businessmen can cross! Any of us can cross it, between right and wrong. And, remember, God's Word is always the thing that's right. "Let every man's word be a lie, but Mine be the Truth," said God.

L-67   Now, he was smitten. And when young Isaiah saw this, what a lesson that was to him then! To see that, a man that gets out of his place, young or old, the one that gets out of his place must suffer the results. No matter how much God had blessed him, he still suffered the results.

L-68 Now Isaiah learned by this, a great lesson. What? That God orders His man to his place.

L-69 Man cannot order yourself to a place. God must order your place. Don't forget that. God orders you to your place, and he must not (never) try to take another one's place. Don't try to be something that you're not.

L-70   As Congressman Upshaw once said; the one that was healed in the meeting, and the Lord let me see a vision over him there in California. Had been a cripple for sixty-six years, and was healed instantly, by the mercies of God. Threw away his crutches, and his old chair and things. He was right here in Shreveport, I think, and testifying. He used to have this saying.

L-71 He was the senator, I believe, or something, for many years, and congressman from Georgia. And he was a representative of the Baptist church of the Southern Baptist Council. And then--and then he went and was run for President, on the dry ticket, and was defeated because of his position. And that night... never even hearing of the man, never. Doctor Roy Davis, the one that laid hands upon me for ordination for the Missionary Baptist church, he sent him to me. And when he come in to the meeting, the Holy Spirit there, with thousands of people sitting, called him by name, and told him what he was and told him that the Lord had healed him. And he come to the platform, without crutches, without braces, without anything. Reached down, at the age of about seventy-something years old, and touched his toes, back and forth, completely delivered. And an orator he was, and a great man he was. What did he...

L-72 Here was his expression, "You can't be something that you hain't." That sounds like me saying that, not a congressman. But that was just... He was a Southerner, and he kind of used his expression because he was a--a man that tried. And he was a great influence to the people, and a godly man. And died the same way, many years later. When he stood on the White House steps, at Billy Graham's meeting, and sang, "Leaning On The Everlasting Arm," before people from all over the world. Now see the...

L-73   God orders His man, and you can't take another one's place. If you do, you're only producing a carnal impersonation, and finally it's going to be smitten. See, you can't do it. God orders you to your place. Isaiah seen this, that he could not put his trust in any man. There was the greatest man there was on the earth, at that time, a king that had the rest of the world paying tribute to him; but because he got out of his place, Isaiah seen then that he could not trust in an arm of flesh, and it drove the prophet to the temple, to pray.

L-74 O God! If the church, if the people that calls themselves Christians, could only see this today, and would drive them to the altar somewhere to pray. You can't be something that you're not.


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