<TITLE>01. Par 1-8</TITLE>64-1221, Why It Had To Be Shepherds, Ramada Inn, Tucson, AZ, 157 min
L-1      I guess, a kind of a long-winded preacher. And without education, I--I guess I don't sound much like a preacher to some people. And I--I don't even claim to be a preacher, I just kind of a spare tire. But I feel that I have a Message from God, that in my way (that the only way I have to present It), I'm trying to present It to the world. And if I didn't stay with that Message, I'd be a traitor to God and a hypocrite to you. A person that will say one thing and believe another, it's hypocrisy. We must always speak the truth from our heart. That when people look upon us, even though they disagree with us, we want to be honorable man and women: that we speak from our heart, that which is true in our hearts.

L-2   Last year, or year before last, I had the privilege of speaking a--a Christian... or pardon me, a Christmas message, here at the Ramada. And I believe I spoke on the subject, either here or Phoenix, on: Why Little Bethlehem? And I believe then it was here, last year, I spoke on: We Have Seen His Star In The East And Have Come To Worship Him.

L-3 And, you know, we read the Bible, and we wonder, those "Why's?" And tonight I thought, if you would bear with me a while, and pray with me, I would try to give you my Christmas message. God only knows where we'll be next Christmas, if there is a next Christmas after this. So being that this might be the last Christmas we set together, until we set at another table. And It will not be one of this type, but it'll be when we eat and drink the communion anew with Him, in the Father's Kingdom at the end of the road. And then, let us approach it tonight as if this was the last Christmas message we'd ever set together in, in the deepness of sincerity.

L-4   I want to speak tonight on a unusual subject, but sometimes you find God in the unusual thing. He does things in a unusual way. Not the usual way, it's the unusual way, unusual times, unusual scenes, He's unusual. And I want this... Lord willing, I want to speak on the subject of: Why It Had To Be Shepherd.

L-5 And now just before we approach the Word, which I believe that is God, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us."

L-6   As I said, last week, or week before last at Phoenix, "It's proven that there is subjects of this earth, people, passing through this building now." Television proves that. It's in another dimension, our natural eyes and our five senses cannot pick that up. It isn't that television manufactures anything, it only channels. You cannot make a move with your finger, you cannot bat your eye, but it's proven to be recorded forever. I might be standing... Or a man in Australia, would have a--a television screen here, not only that but the--the man could speak, move his finger, bat his eye, or even the color of clothing that he's wearing, would be projected here on the wall; and he in Africa, Australia, around the world. See, there is a cycle of ether waves. I cannot explain it, but I know it's there. I don't think anyone could really explain it. So, television can pull this in and make it a reality by some instruments, that they could reflect it on the wall.

L-7   Now, that same thing was here when Adam was here. Television was here when--when Elijah set on Mount Carmel. It was here when Martin Luther, that young priest, throwed the communion on the floor and said, "It's kosher! And the just shall live by faith." It was here then, but we are just now finding it. And it's also so, that in our presence tonight is God, Angels, supernatural beings that's unseen to our natural sense of sight. But someday it'll be a reality just as television is now, and just as common. Now, that is why I believe the Word.

L-8 Jesus said, "Whosoever shall add one word to this Bible, or take one Word out of It, his part will be taken out of the Book of Life."


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