<TITLE>02. Par 10-22</TITLE>L-10   And I certainly have... If--if I said "amen" and walked out the door, I'd say it would pay me every Sunday to drive up here, or--or have my children even to come up, to--to set under an atmosphere like this. Because, it's always the atmosphere that brings the results.

L-11 You can lay a seed out there in the ground. No matter how much that seed is germitized, and lay it there, it's got to have an atmosphere to make it live. See? That sun has to come to a certain power, before, bring it to a certain atmosphere. An egg has to have an atmosphere, or it won't hatch. No matter how fertile it is, it's got to have that atmosphere.

L-12   And I think, that in a group like this, Christians hatch out, are born again in such an atmosphere as this. This is kind of atmosphere I was born under. No matter where I go and visit, the cold world, and mission fields and so forth, I can even stand and close my eyes and think of this atmosphere.

L-13 This reminds me when I was just a boy preacher and just starting out. We had little groups that met from house to house. We separated ourselves from the things of the world, too. That's what made my heart the way it is today, in love with Christ, where we can dwell together.

L-14 I believe the Scripture said, "How sweet it is that brethren can dwell together in unity." It's like the anointing oil was on Aaron's beard, that ran to the hems of his garments."

L-15 And just--just so much could be said. I--I... Maybe the Holy Spirit will interpret to you, after I'm gone, what it is. Wish I could stay all afternoon, and just forsake meals and everything else, just set here and hear you sing. See? Hear you sing, and talk, and testify, it means so much.

L-16   My daughter graduates tonight. Or, it's just the baccalaureate service, tonight, and I have to hurry back. And I didn't know that, that it was to be this, baccalaureate service was to be, until just last night. I'm kind of busy, and don't notice it.

L-17 And visiting with Brother Leo and Brother Gene, as they come down, I've longed for the time to be here, wondering, just really. I heard people say, "Well, they got a lovely trailer court. They're over on one side. The world is on the other. And on this side is all dedicated lives and things."

L-18 I thought, "I'd like to see that. I just--just like to see what it really is." And you all are blessed to be here.

L-19   I--I want to read just one verse out of the Bible. And I think, just reading this one verse will absolutely make a complete service. But I have, coming up here, I had just a few comments that I thought I would say. It won't take me but just a few minutes. And then I would like to say these comments to what I--what I feel now. In the Book of Second Corinthians, the 12th chapter, and the 11th verse, I would like to read this. Paul speaking.
I have become a fool in glorying; yea, compelling me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

L-20 I would like, just if I would call this a text... I--I think the Holy Spirit is among us. And, we, it wouldn't be just to read a Scripture. He, that's what He lives on. And every Word is given by inspiration, and it's fitting for time. It never ends. It's like a chain. It just keeps going on. It never ends, the Scripture.

L-21   And I thought, while reading this, and thinking of this little place up here, this come on my mind, Paul saying, "I have become a fool." See? Now, that's a very strange thing for an apostle to say. "I have become a fool." Now, a fool is a person that really isn't in their right mind. And how would this apostle say such a thing as this, "I become a fool"?

L-22 And then thinking of--of this group, no doubt, that, in the eyes of the people on the other side, you've become a fool. You have become what we would call, today: The Oddball. No doubt but what people think that of you. And remember, that, on the other side, they're oddballs, too. See?


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