<TITLE>05. Par 34-44</TITLE>L-34 And we believe, tonight, though we see You make the blind to see, and the deaf to hear, and the lame to walk, and--and by doctor's statements have seen you raise up five people from the dead, in different times, in different nations; but yet, Lord, I believe, the most sickest thing I know of tonight is the body of Christ here on earth, the church. It's really sick. Heal it tonight, Lord. This portion that sets here together, this--this bunch that's sojourning here in--in Tampa, this lovely bunch of people, Lord, heal every wound tonight. Let the Spirit grant this to us, for we ask It in Jesus' Name, and for His honor and for His glory, here in this city where we are a journeying. Amen.

L-35   May be seated. If I should call it now, just for a few moments... And try not, each night...

L-36 I have to apologize to you. Because that you've been so nice, and you're such an easy audience to preach to, till you just don't know when to stop. And that makes a minister know that you're feeding, or receiving the Words that I'm saying.

L-37 I come to you when I been... I'm the tired-est I've ever been, in I don't know when. See, I haven't let up since Christmas.
I'm going right from here to Tucson, and start again.

L-38 Come right from there, and go to British Columbia, to baptize a whole tribe of Indians that I led to Christ, were formerly Catholic, last fall, when I was on a hunting trip. And the whole group gave their heart to Christ, by the healing of the mother, one of the mothers. That, the doctors, no one, could touch her. She was laying, dying. And they want me to come back, as soon as the ice gets melted. See, gets eighty-five below zero there. And so, and ice melted, I'm taking them, and all.

L-39   A great bunch of trappers and hunters, up-and-down the Alaskan Highway, are all meeting with me, to be baptized and accepting Christ. They seen the Lord show a vision of a certain thing, where a certain bear would be, how much he'd weigh, what kind he was, and where a certain animal would be staying; how, who would be there, and what they'd be wearing, and all about it. And told them before it happened. And they said, "It's not even that kind of things in this country." And we went right straight to it. It happened, word by word. The trophies hangs in my room today. See? They said, "We want to be baptized too." Rough men, but, you know, He's got seed laying everywhere.

L-40   My subject tonight is: Jesus Keeps All His Appointments. I want you to bear that on mind as we speak. And I--I won't talk too long. And I want you to think it over now. Remember, you've got to meet this One that's present with us tonight, someday.

L-41   Now, it must have been almost sundown, when our setting starts out tonight. It must have been about sundown. And this courier had run all day, maybe two or three days. He was trying to find Him. He went down, maybe, almost, from Dan to Beersheba.

L-42 Because, Jesus, in His ministry, was going. "Speak here," perform His signs and wonders, and the people would all gather. He would take off, somewhere else. "I must go to another city."

L-43 And he had had a hard time. Perhaps he had went over to Capernaum, and they said, "Why, He left here a week ago. We don't know exactly where He went, but He went somewhere else." And he, oh, he was tired. His hair was wet with perspiration, his legs were dusty and sweaty, and as he come up into the party where Jesus had been speaking.

L-44 And Jesus also was tired. He'd been speaking all day. His mouth was dry, from much speaking. And His hands begin to look tremb'ly, and His eyes weary, as the sun begin to sink.
And he wanted to see Jesus. He had a message for Him.


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