<TITLE>11. Par 136-149</TITLE>L-136 Now this is something that I have to say. I don't like to say it, but it just has to make the truth, see, and that's what you want. Always tell the truth, no matter what takes place.
Years had passed, we had never noticed it.

L-137 And I say this, not because she is sitting there, because I say it when she is not there. And you know that. I don't believe there could be a better wife in the world than my wife, and I hope she always remains that way. And I want to be a loyal husband, and I hope that every young man in this building, when he gets married, gets a wife like my wife. I don't know how long we'll live that way, but I hope the rest of our days on earth. We've been very happy together. God was the one who told me to marry her.

L-138   At the same time, her not knowing, I was trying not to marry her; not because I didn't love her, but because I didn't think I was able to make a living for her. And she was a fine woman, and I just didn't deserve that.

L-139 And she went out to pray, and opened up the Bible. And guess... She said, "Lord, I've never did this before, but give me a Scripture that'll help me. If I got to forget him, I've got to forget it." Opened the Bible...

L-140 And she went out in a little shed and prayed. And when she opened the Bible up, "Malachi 4. Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet before the..." That was--that was twenty something years ago, knowing nothing about the ministry of this day. And I was... couldn't be...

L-141 I was lying down on the river there. And He woke--woke me up, one night, and I heard Him standing there by the door. He said, "Go get her, and your wedding shall be this coming October, the twenty-third." And that's just exactly what I did. And we've lived happy. By the grace of God, we've never had one word. She's been a sweetheart.

L-142   One day I come in. And she has had to raise these children by herself; me gone in the ministry. Not many women would put up with that; you know that, they would be hard. And then I come in, and she said something or the other. We got Joseph back there, and he's a... He sure is a boy! And he helped put some of the gray hair in his mother's head, as well as I did. So he was really all boy, and he had done something real bad. And I said to her... She said to me, "Bill, give him a licking."
I said, "I just ain't got the nerve." See?

L-143 And she said, "Yes, if you had to put up with it," and she slammed the door right in my face.

L-144   "Well," I thought, "that's all right. Poor little fellow didn't mean that."

L-145 I just went on out to wash my car. And when I got out there, the Holy Spirit didn't like it; He said, "Go tell her," I believe it's Second Chronicles, 22nd chapter. I didn't. I thought, at first, I just imagined that. I just kept on washing. And It said it again, "Go tell her to read this."

L-146 And I went in and got the Bible, and read it. It was where Mo-... or Miriam, the prophetess, made fun of her brother, Moses, for marrying an Ethiopian girl, and God didn't like it. And He said, "It had been better that her father spit in her face, than--than to--to a-done that."

L-147   So, Miriam broke out with leprosy, all over. And so Aaron come, told his sister, said... or come told his brother, said, "She is dying, with leprosy."

L-148 And so Moses run in to intercede for her, at the altar. And when he did, the Pillar of Fire come down, God. He said, "Go call her and Aaron, and bring them here." And Aaron was in it, too. So He said, "Call them and come here."

L-149 He said, "If there be one among you," God speaking now to them, "that is spiritual, or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. I'll speak to him in visions, and reveal Myself to him by dreams, and--and reveal dreams, and so forth." He said, "But My servant, Moses, there is no one in the land like him." He said, "I speak with him from lip to ear." He said, "Didn't you fear God?" See, God didn't like it.


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