<TITLE>02. Par 11-17</TITLE>L-11   Behalf of keeping everything just as orderly for our new brothers, that we certainly welcome them into our fellowship. I see, I believe they had made mention of a priest sitting here, I think; course, being Irish, my people are Catholic. And so there was a couple more, Baptist and different ones. You might have been a little confused, a while ago. I noticed none of the brethren spoke about it, but I thought I would try to straighten out. When Brother Shakarian... After the fine speaker here was got so filled with joy, of knowing the Coming of the Lord so close at hand, he--he spoke in an unknown tongue, to us. And we have interpreters that gives the interpretation. Which, the Scripture says, "If there be no interpreter, then let them hold their peace." But if--if they speak in tongues and then interpret it, it becomes prophecy. So the little confusion of--of two of them at one time. Now, that wasn't a bit confusing, see; because, one of them was giving the interpretation, the other one was prophesying. See? So that's...

L-12   I thought I would let our brethren understand, if they did not understand, because one of them was correctly giving... Did you notice the time limits of each one? And the other one was just so filled, himself, that the Spirit of God was prophesying through one; interpreting, the other was giving the interpretation. So that it might be clear, that you... we're not... Sometimes, to the natural mind... Just like our precious brother that give the apology this morning. It is a bit confusing to the person who doesn't understand. But to those who are in, the veterans of the battle that we're in, why, we understand that, what these things are. So I just thought I'd say something about it, if it was all right.

L-13   Now, I--I know this is no place to say this. But being that everybody has been telling little things, I... You know, that fellow said, the old colored man said, "you don't have enough room for me to preach." You ain't got enough time for me to preach. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Rather longwinded.

L-14 A man said one day, said, "A minister came up, he had been a pastor at the church for twenty years. And he always preached just exactly thirty minutes each Sunday morning at his church." And he said, "This Sunday morning, he preached three hours."

L-15 And so the deacon board called him in, and said, "Pastor, we really appreciate you." Said, "We always know that--that you stand for the Bible and Its rights." And said then, "And you always correct us so we can be feel pure and clean before God. And we really appreciate you, and we believe you're God's servant. And we certainly did appreciate that message this morning. But," said, "there is just one thing that we want to ask you about." Said, "We timed you, as a deacon board." Said, "Every Sunday morning you're just exactly thirty minutes, and today you were three hours." Said, "Now, remember, we appreciate every bit of it. It was all right." Making the old fellow feel good, you know.

L-16   He said, "Well, brethren, I'll tell you how it is." Said, "Every morning when I go to... I'm called to the pulpit," said, "I put one of those little Life Savers in my mouth," he said, "and I just suck on it." And said, "When the Life Saver is done," said, "it takes just thirty minutes," and said, "then I quit preaching." He said, "You know, this morning, I thought I was a little overtime. I spit it out, I had a button in my mouth." [Congregation laughs--Ed.]

L-17 I ain't going to put anything in, so we hope we don't get some buttons in our pocket. But we are... I hope that didn't sound sacrilegious here. But I just... You know, even God has a sense of humor, you know.


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