<TITLE>03. Par 17-24</TITLE>L-17 If we tried to make all of us, this morning, Assemblies of God, we couldn't do that. We try to make them Pentecostal Holiness; we'd never do that. We try to make them United Churches; we'll never do that.

L-18 But there is one Place that we can meet, all of us, as believers, under the Blood of Jesus Christ. And that's the only place that God ever met man, or ever will meet man, is under the Blood of Jesus Christ. That's where we have things in common.

L-19   Recently, I was reading of where a young couple was separating, and it was a pitiful thing. They, they had lived together for several years. And a disagreement come up among them, and the little mother, lady and her husband, was going to separate. And they were... The attorney was a friend to them. He said, "Now, before, we have to get somebody up there and sell these things, and take what you got. If you're going to have the divorce, then just divide the spoils among yourselves." They said they would do that.

L-20   They went into the parlor; they fussed, they fought, and everything else, over what was in the parlor. They went into the living room, and they--and they did the same thing there, and the dining room, and kitchen. Finally they remembered, up in the attic, that they had some stuff stored away up there. So they both went up into the "garret," I guess you call it here; east, we call it, up in the "attic." So they went up there and pulled out an old trunk. And they had some clothes and things, that, so they were reaching, and fussing over this and that.

L-21 And after a while, when they lifted up something, they both reached for it, and their hands caught each others hands as they grabbed. It was a little pair of white shoes. It was to a--a baby had been granted to their union, but had passed on. There, holding each others' hands, one couldn't say, "it's mine," the other one couldn't say, "it's mine." It was something they had together. Just a few moments, they looked at each other. One couldn't claim it, and the other one couldn't claim it. So, they was in one another's arms, and the divorce was annulled.

L-22 I want to see that, we Baptists, and we Methodists, and we Assemblies, and Church of God, and whatever we might be. We might have things all different, and everything like that, that's our own traditions that's got us into that. But there is one Thing we have in common, brother; Christ, He is the Word. That's what we're here to do; not talk about our differences, but talk about what we have in common, Jesus Christ.
Now let us pray.

L-23   Heavenly Father, Thou art our Father, we thank Thee, because that today we have the hopes of Eternal Life, through the blessed resurrection of Jesus Christ. We see the evening Lights a shining. The tree that the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten; the caterpillar left, the locust eaten; and we realize that these insects are the same insect, just in another stage of its life. And we realize that church differences is still the same old Roman insect that started at Nicaea. And what one leaves, the other eats. And it look, like, today, that we're in such a chaos, and now going into the--the great council, Ecumenic Council of Churches, look like there would be nothing left, hopes is gone.

L-24 But, remember, the infallible Word of God, as the sun rose up to show the superstitions up, so have You promised, "I will restore," saith the Lord, "all the years that the caterpillars destroyed, and the palmerworms, and so forth." How they would be restored again, and that tree would live again! We pray, Father, that You will send down grace, and the resurrection power of Christ, that You might restore, resurrect us to a living faith in the living Word of this day. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.


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