<TITLE>08. Par 85-99</TITLE>L-85 And my wife has had to be both mother and daddy, both, for those children, 'cause I'm away. And her decision.... A father and mother should agree upon their decisions for their children. But I'm not there, I'm in the service of the Lord. And my wife now is forty-four years old, just ten years younger than I. And I come in from one of the meetings, and I was tired. Been about a little over (about) two years ago, I guess, when we come out here. And I had been out, and I was real tired.

L-86   And my little boy, Joseph, he is just strickly a boy, and running out in school where he hears everything. One day when I come in, he said something another, and sassed his mother. And--and then he run to me. Now, she knowed, he knowed he would get a licking from her.
So she said to me, she said, "Billy, give him a whipping."

L-87 And he put his arms around me, said, "Daddy, I'm so sorry." He knowed my soft spot.
And so, "Oh," I said, "honey, let's forget it. I can't."

L-88 And for the wife and I, with this Bible before me, has never had a word in our life. But all at once, being in that nervous time of life, she slammed the door right in my face. And she said, "Then you should take care of him a while," and slammed the door, and went in.

L-89 I thought, "Poor little fellow! My, she has all that to go through, herself."

L-90 I walked on out, and I said, "Joseph, come on," I said. Took him. I said, "Daddy should give you a licking. You know that. But," I said, "being that you repented. See? But, remember, my--my patience is going to run out, one of these days. And that, that repenting, you've got to bring forth fruit meets for repentance, and prove to me that you really mean it. See? If you love me, then you'll mind me."

L-91   And so I went on out, and I said, "I'll wash the dust off my windshield of my car. And I started out to wash that windshield.

L-92 And, as I did, a Voice said, "Turn, and tell her to read Second Chronicles 22."

L-93 I thought, "I just--I just--just... I don't know how I ever thought that. I thought, "Well, I just imagined that." Kept on washing.

L-94 And again It come, real loud, "Go, tell her!" Well, It scared me.

L-95 I went in and read it. You know what it is? It's when Miriam made fun of Moses, about marrying an Ethiopian girl. And God said, "It was better that your father spit in your face, than to do that." See? And He called them in, said, "Go, get Miriam, she is struck with leprosy." Said, "Go, get Miriam." And Moses... And the Pillar of Fire came down into the tabernacle. And Moses stood there. And God talked to them. He said, "If there be one among you, whose is spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. I will speak to him in visions, reveal dreams, and so forth." He said, "But My servant, Moses, there is none like him in the land." He said, "Didn't you fear God?" And Miriam, being a prophetess, was stricken with leprosy. And Moses interceded for her, and she lived.

L-96   Then, that scared me. I had forgot. Me, I didn't--I didn't notice it, but He did. He was the One that noticed it. That was my wife, I would die anytime for her. But God noticed it. Now this is the truth, my Bible laying here in front of me.

L-97 And I went in. And she had went into the room and shut the door, and was sewing on the sewing machine. And I knocked on the door, and I said, "Sweetheart, I want to talk to you a minute."
She said, "What do you want?"

L-98 I said, "Honey, open the door, right away. I got a word from the Lord." That kind of sobered her up a little, so she opened the door.

L-99 And we come in. And I said, "Sweetheart, now you know, as much as I love you, I--I--I never thought nothing about that."
She said, "Well, Bill, if... I'm so nervous!"


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