<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>64-0312, When Their Eyes Were Opened, They Knew Him, Municipal Auditorium, Beaumont, TX, 84 min
L-1      Let us bow our heads a moment for prayer. As this music sweetly comes through these microphones, Only Believe, I wonder if we have requests, tonight, that we would want to make known to God. And with our hands up, we promise we'll believe as we raise our hands. The Lord bless.

L-2 Our Heavenly Father, we are approaching Thee, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, because that You've promised, if we did it this way, that You would hear us. And we pray that You will receive what we have need of, into Thy knowing, Lord, and will reward us according to our faith. We know You will, because You promised. There is many requests. Many hands were up; mine, too, Lord. I'm praying that You will just meet with us, tonight, and show us the way we should live and what we should do to have faith in You. Get glory out of the service, Lord, as we commit ourselves to Thee, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
May be seated.

L-3   Don, how are you? I'm certainly surprised, tonight, to see many of my friends sitting here on the platform with me. Brother Lee Vayle was one of the managers. Brother... All right, I can't call that German name, Hierholzer. I get it backwards all the time. Brother Don Ruddell and all the brothers here, everybody, I acquainted with all of them, so I'm certainly glad to have them here tonight to--to pray with us while we are preaching the Word, praying for the sick.

L-4 Now, I think, tomorrow night, and then Sunday afternoon, back there, then Saturday night is to be somewhere else. Have you been praying today? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Fine.

L-5 I'm sorry I kept you late, last evening. But it was a new place, everything new, and you know it takes just a little bit to get used to each other. As I used to say, forgive the expression, "Get all the spooks away, where we know one another, so we... all the funny feelings."

L-6   Sometimes you meet in places. Oh, no disregarding to this auditorium, but, see, it isn't always religious services, I suppose, held here. It's all kinds of services. And in there, as odd as it might seem, but there is spirit of everything. If you don't have spirit in you, you are dead. And people with different spirit congregate together.

L-7 Jesus could not heal among a crowd like that. He come in His own country, and they didn't believe Him, and He could do no mighty works there. One day He had to lead a--a man that was blind, all the way out of the city, before He could get him to--to see, and get his. And one with his hearing.

L-8 See, sometime you've got to get together where believers are assembled together and believe. And this place is dedicated now to the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it's a church now, just as much church as... Wherever the people are--are meeting together, that is the church. So now, tonight, we are very, very indeed privileged people, we feel, to be here tonight, to assemble with you all, to--to pray and recognize Jesus Christ among us.

L-9   Now, you know, the Presbyterians have a lot of... or an Episcopalians, I believe it is, up-and-down, up-and-down; raise up and say something, sit down; raise up and say something, sit down. And I'm going to ask you to stand again while I read the Word.


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