<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>64-0209, Countdown, Kern County Fairgrounds, Bakersfield, CA, 71 min
L-1      Now, we're about thirty minutes, thirty-five minutes late. I won't speak but just a few moments, 'cause we're going to have a prayer line, calling up all peoples who has their prayer cards, and pray for them. That's our promise.

L-2 But now we're standing in respects of the Word, while I read a portion of Scripture here, and ask God for a context for my text. We are turning to Hebrews, the 11th chapter, if you'd like to follow as we read.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.
For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

L-3 Let us pray. Lord, bless Your Word. Sanctify the instrument that it shall be used for. And may the instrumentality be to go together with the Word, to bring forth Life and make this Word live again before us. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
You may be seated.

L-4   Now just give me your undivided attention just for a few moments, about twenty minutes. I have a little text here, I'd like to call it: Countdown.

L-5 You know, with all the things, did you hear what the Scripture said? The things that are, we see, were made of things that was not, because it was the Word of God Who spoke things into existence. The world that we are sitting upon today, the chairs that we're sitting in, the floor that's beneath us, the dirt, the trees, everything, is nothing but the interpretation of the Word of God. When God interprets it, when it happens, that reveals it. "Let there be," and there was. "Let there be," and there was. And to see nature, how it is formed.

L-6   Now, nature has been my Bible. As everyone knows, who I've... been in my audience, when I've spoke, I'm really almost on the illiterate side, and just barely read. I had a seventh-grade education. I had a lot of experience. But, in my preaching, I have to take my inspiration and type it with something in the... in nature, so that you can understand what I'm talking about. I can't use words like a smart, educated man does, because I haven't the education to do it with. So therefore I pick up nature, and type what my inspiration is telling me, with nature. I felt awful lonesome, that, but one time... I read in the Bible is where the prophets of the Old Testament did that.

L-7   And then the greatest of the prophets was John. And we notice, when he was nine years old, he was carried into the wilderness by the Spirit, because he had to introduce the Messiah. His father was a priest. It was, ordinarily, that he--he would have followed the trend of his father. But, his job was too important, to take some ethics of what somebody else thought. He had to get his message from God. So, at the age of thirty he came out of the wilderness, uneducated, but with a burning zeal in his heart, with a revelation from God, and a vision, that he was going to announce the Messiah. He knew it so plainly, until he said, "There is One standing among you, right now, that you don't know." Think of that. "One standing among you, right here, that you don't know. He, His shoes I am not worthy to unloose, but He will baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire. His fan is in His hand."

L-8   And did you notice his--his manner of speech? Now, he said to the Pharisees when they come out. He knew, being a prophet, he knowed what was in their heart. And he said, "You generation of vipers," meaning snakes. See, they, he knew that that...

L-9 Now, some other man might have said, "you," something else, you know, used some... a--a good, high grammar, "You insignificant piece of inconvenience," or whatever you might want to call it. That might be wrong; I just picked that up, see. So it might have been some other words that he could have used.


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