<TITLE>01. Par 1-7</TITLE>64-1205, The Identified Masterpiece Of God, Stardust Motel, Yuma, AZ, 93 min
L-1   Thank you, very much, brother. Billy wants me to say that this is my first time in the pulpit, for three months. And he... I remember the first time I had him, up to testify, he said, "The first thing, I'm scared." I am, too. About thirty-five years in the ministry, and this is the longest I've stayed away from the pulpit since I've been in the ministry. I needed a little rest, so Brother Mosley and I, and some of the brethren here, been on a little hunting trip. And we've rested up now. And this is my first meeting since I'm... about the first of September. And it's something. A ministry is something you have to kind of stay with?

L-2   And now I've asked them to turn that fan off, or see if they could turn it off, because I know it's hard to hear. And it's hard, I know, when someone is giving their testimony. It was hard for me to hear them. Can you hear all right now? Good. I know to kind of stand close to this microphone until they get that fixed.

L-3   This is certainly a--a grand privilege for me, and I--I'm certainly grateful to the chairman, and to the chapter of Full Gospel Business Men here in Yuma, and for all the ministers. This fine singers here, was up here a few moments ago, I'd like to hear them at the--at the meeting. That was really good. I--I just wondered, when they were singing, if John saw me. And I hope he did. And, so, I hear you're in a revival here. The Lord bless you richly, brother and sister, as you minister. And to all my friends in Phoenix and different places, that's... and from over in California.

L-4   And I just want to say a word about the chapters. When I come to the Pentecostal people, I was... had a pentecostal experience, not knowing that there was a Pentecostal church. I was a Missionary Baptist then. I had received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and I found out there was some people who believed the same thing that I had received. And they had received it forty years before I got it. So I was just one, as Paul said, I believe, not trying to say with him, but kind of "one born out of season." But the... My brethren seemed to think I had went off, kind of on the deep end, as we call it. But I--I knew that I had received something. Then, my experience was just like they had it there. And that's the way I like that.

L-5   And, but when I come among them, the--the heart-breaking part about it, I found that they were just as about broke up, in different denominations, as my Baptist church was. And they... I thought there was just one called Pentecost, and that was it. But, come to find out, there was several different denominations of them. So, now, they were all fine. I know some of the finest men I've ever met, in my life, was in these groups. And they were--they were, course, different denominations. And my--my thought was that we should be one in heart, with Christ, and I never joined any certain denomination of them. I just stayed between them, and trying to hold both hands, and all hands, and say, "We are brethren." We don't... We might see little things different from one, from the other. But, outside of all of that, we're still brothers, because we're born of the same Spirit. We are the family of God.

L-6   Then when the Christian businessmen, the Full Gospel Business Men, this chapter, I was among the first meetings with Brother Shakarian. I knew him before there was the organization, or the organism was set up. I thought it was a great thing. And it's been an open door for me, to travel internationally with this Full Gospel Business Men.

L-7 Where, sometimes, that you find a group of ministers, sometime, they get a little feeling against another group, because someone said something. That's not everywhere, but we find it in localities. And like, if one church is going to sponsor it, the other one will have nothing to do with it.


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