<TITLE>04. Par 29-34</TITLE>L-29 I remember. I've told you, perhaps. When I first seen a Pentecostal minister, it was Rev. Robert Daugherty from St. Louis. I doubt whether any of you knew him. You seen the testimony of his little girl in the book. He was--he was... She was healed of St. Vitus dance, and she had been given up. And that's how I met the first Pentecostal people.

L-30   And, this, I went to hear him preach, and--and, my, he--he could preach. He'd... He wouldn't even wait for nothing. And he'd preach till he'd get plumb out of wind, and he'd get blue in the face, and his knees would buckle together, and he'd almost hit the floor. And he'd catch his breath, you could hear him at the end of the city down there, almost, come back up preaching. And thought, "My, I--I just can't think of it that fast."

L-31 I just have to kind of take my time. I'm kind of slow, and getting old, too, you know, creeping along, so I hope you'll bear with me for a few minutes.

L-32   There's one thing sure, that I know won't fail, and that's His Word. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but His Word will never fail." So let us turn now, if you have your Bible, and like to read from It, in the Book of Isaiah, the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. I'd like to read this just for to build, get a text to build a context on, for a while.
Who has believed our report?... to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrow,... acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;... with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD... laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers are dumb,... he opened not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: and for... transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he has done no violence, neither was there deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, and shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hands.
He shall--He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquity.
Therefore will I divide him a portion of the great, and he shall divide the spoils with the strong; because he... poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sins of many, and made intercessions for the transgressors.

L-33   I just like to say this, for just a little text. I like to take a text from there, as: The Identified Masterpiece Of God.

L-34 Now, this would be quite a--a--a text to read, to pick out a masterpiece. But when we look at it, as we would think, that would be everything else but a masterpiece, because it said, "We hid our faces from Him, and there was no beauty we should desire Him." And many times, what we would call a masterpiece, while God would have nothing to do with it. Because, the wisdom of man is foolishness to God, but the foolishness of God is more wiser than all the wisdom of man.


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