<TITLE>02. Par 5-18</TITLE>L-5   Now, we are grateful again tonight for the opportunity to be here in the... this auditorium, and to have this grand time to fellowship again around the things of God.

L-6 I'm sorry to have kept you last night, against my promise, that, I told you we would be out each evening at--at between nine and nine-thirty. And I--I--I missed it last evening, and I--I'm sorry I did that. Now, tonight, I'll try to redeem that, with you, because I know many of you work. And you have to go to work. You, you people, you women have to get your husbands off to work, so forth. And many of you work, and it's hard.

L-7 And I think that, today, we've had much preaching. Many fine ministers, able ministers, that has brought us the Word, your pastors and--and evangelists, and so forth, that comes through the city. But, I think, the main thing that I'm trying to--to try to bring to you, is the--the reality of the Presence of Christ, that--that you might see Him and know that it's Him, by His identified promise for the day.

L-8   Now, last evening we tried to give a little outline, and tonight we got another little outline, and maybe tomorrow night.

L-9 Then, the Lord willing, Saturday night, 'cause you won't have to get up so early Sunday morning, I--I want to try to bring the Message in a--in a way that it would more understanding to pastors and those who can, to lay it back in the Scriptures.

L-10 And then, Sunday afternoon, we want--want to have a--a prayer line, and pray for the sick, by laying the hands upon the sick and praying for them in that manner. And we found that, successfully, those who cannot reach up by faith and just believe Him and accept it. My way of thinking it, that, it would be better if we could just raise up and accept Him.

L-11   Here in South Africa, when I was in a meeting there at Durban, where some nearly two hundred thousand people, I guess, had gathered at the Durban race track. There was, we bring... They only have five people on the platform. And when the fifth person was healed, at the platform, and it was asked the natives out there, where they were just laying... Oh, my!

L-12 Well, that's one of the biggest race tracks in the world. It's lots bigger than Churchill Downs, at Louisville. And the English all go there for their winter sports, racing. And we had the race track, and it was packed all the way full, and all the way across the track. And I was over on the other side, in a--a building. Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, taken me out there that day, to the race course.

L-13   And I saw, with one congregational prayer, after those natives... Some of them didn't know which was right and left hand. And I saw them, after they seen...

L-14 And I explained. I had fifteen different interpreters. When you say one sentence, you have to wait till fifteen different men say it. Now, you know how difficult that was, for the tribes. And then after that was over, and explain to them in a little manner of what Jesus was. I said, "Many of you here are tagged as Christians, still packing an idol in your hand, though."

L-15 And I asked one. I said to Mr. Smith, I said, "What's that native packing that idol for? And as you said, 'That was a Christian tag.'"

L-16   He said, "It is." Said, "He's a Zulo." Said, "I can speak his language. Just ask him." And so he just did it for my benefit. So I... We pulled up close to him. And I called him, "Thomas." He said, "Just say anything, 'cause he was a doubter."

L-17 I said, "Thomas, are you a Christian?" And, yes, he--he believed in It. I said, "Well, what have you got that idol in your hand for?"

L-18 "Well, it--it was God, too. And his father packed this idol, and when the lion got after him. And he had it sprinkled with blood. And--and he built up a little fire, to say the prayer the witch doctor told him, and it scared the lion away."


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