<TITLE>19. Par 180-189</TITLE>L-180   Now, Heavenly Father, there were many, many hands that went up here just now. And we see that the Name of Jesus Christ has been stomped into the dirt. And everything in Heaven is named That. Everything on earth is named That. Every--every church member, every member of the Body of Christ, is Mrs. Jesus. And we pray, Heavenly Father, that we'll see and understand that, tonight. And may Your grace come upon these people now and forgive every sin, that they know that, in Your Presence now, and know that You're here. Let Your Holy Spirit teach us all now, and may we be forgiven of all of our sins and our mistakes. And from tonight on, may we be new creatures, filled with Your Spirit. Grant it. May we be conscious of Your Presence. For we ask it in His Name.

L-181   And while we have our heads bowed. I wonder, tonight... Now, I'm talking to sinners, and to church members, and to backsliders, and to those who have not the Holy Ghost. I'm talking to you. Why didn't Pharisee accept Him?

L-182 We'll keep calling for Him. "O Lord, will You come?" When your baby was sick, you called for Him. He was merciful, no doubt. When you was about to see that wreck out there, you called on Him. He--He let you get out of it. But I wonder, just wonder, with all these things that we ask Him, and we invite Him, then when He comes to visit us like this, wonder if we're just ashamed.

L-183   To say, "Well, I been a member of a church, but I want to find Him in the baptism of the Holy Ghost tonight. I want Him. I need Him. I don't care what the rest of the world says about It. I want Him." Would you like to have the baptism of the Holy Spirit? If you would, I'm going to ask you to do something. I want you to come up here, right here where I am now. Come right down here and stand right at this pit right here by me. Every person in here, every unsaved person, first, will you walk up here and stand here just a minute?

L-184 If you believe that He hears prayer, will you come here and stand here just a minute now, while we sing one verse of a song? What Is that? Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling. All right, with our heads bowed, everybody praying, come right up here and stand here, right down here in this pit here.
Softly and tenderly, Jesus...
Come, will you, friend, anywhere you are?
Calling for you and...

L-185 Jsus in this last days, just before His appearing in physical form now, setting with dirty feet. Are you willing to come take your stand, to take the reproach off of His Name?
Calling, O sinner, come home.
Come home.

L-186 Won't... Get up quickly now. Make up your mind. Come right on now. We got plenty of time. Tomorrow is Sunday. Sunday school don't start till nine-thirty. Come on now.
... are weary, come home;
Earnestly, tenderly...
Do you realize Jesus is here?
Calling, O sinner, come home.
Come home.

L-187 That's right. Come on out of the balcony. We'll wait for you. Come right on up, each one now, and take your place right down here. Now just... This means your life.

L-188 What happens? Look at the earthquakes all over the earth, shaking the earth again. Look what's happening everywhere. The time is at hand. And look, the door will be closed, after while, and you'll cry to get in, and can't.

L-189   I talked to a young woman, some time ago. I was holding a meeting in a Baptist church, and I asked her that night to come to Christ. And she wouldn't do it. And then afterwards, she met me outside and said, "Don't you never embarrass me like that again." A year later, I passed through the street. She was a honorable young girl. I passed through the street. Her underneath skirts hanging down, smoking a cigarette, going down the street. She was a deacon's daughter. And I said, "Hello, there. Aren't..."
She said, "Hello, preach'!" Such a slang as that, "Hello, preach'!"
I said, "Aren't you ashamed, that cigarette?"


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