<TITLE>03. Par 24-35</TITLE>L-24   Last evening, when I picked up that Bible, and I couldn't find that text. And I picked up that new Bible. I was reading out of the old, and I picked up the new one and put it under my arm and run up here. And I turned over to that place, and I thought, "Well, here, I believe it was Saint John 16:21," and it wasn't the reading at all.
I said to Brother Moore, "Is that where that's at?" "Yes."

L-25 And I looked back, and it wasn't there. So I thought, "Well, they got a misplaced page in--page in."

L-26 Then my brother here came, Brother Stanley, he came over; Bishop Stanley, rather. And I don't know what the man meant, I... It was such a comfort, though. He walked up close to my side, and he said, "Hold steady, brother, God is maybe going to do something." See? And that just encouraged me, to think he would say that.

L-27 I wonder if he realized he prophesied? But talking to him a few moments ago, just before getting up here, I'm sure he did.

L-28   So I brought it in my Message upon the Birth Pains, and so forth. And my little rude way of doing it, about the lily; and how it's born down and begotten, and comes up, and draws up the sun, the dew drop, and so forth. And then the corruption of what it has to die out of, to be born out of, rather, to come out. And I was trying to make an illustration of the church.

L-29 Just like the doctor here, if he went to treat a patient. We've got doctors today that says, "You can rub your foot, on the back of the heel, and heal the cancer on your face, you see." But a good doctor wouldn't listen to such a thing as that. He treats the patient according to the book that he is reading on medical research.

L-30 And that's the way I try to do to treat the patient. When I see the church sick, I don't want to try to tell them they need a new handshake or something, a new organization. I have to treat it according to the Book that I--I know, see. And so when I see the church, look like breaking out with measles, I want to take the very Prescription I think is right, and for the measles, to get it out of the church; when I see sin breaking out in it, it's the same way!

L-31   I tried to make a comparison with Esau and Jacob, and then bringing times down. And I won't go into that. But bringing it down to the last part in my last Scripture to use, was comparing it, not unscripturally, but as Jesus said it would be, what the main Doctor said the condition of the church should be, in this last days, "It would be a Laodicea; rich, blind, naked, poor church," and it would be compared with the days of Sodom. Now, we know that's the Truth. If you notice it, historically, He brought in the days of Noah, first, and then the days of Sodom. And that's just the way it's traveled, just the same way.

L-32 And history, has many times, repeats itself, history does, and so does--does promises of the Bible. For instance, like in Matthew 3, where it said, "Out of Egypt I have called My son." Now if you run the reference on that, it was Jacob, His son, He called out of Egypt; that was His lesser son. But His great Son, Jesus, was called out of Egypt, too. So it had a--a compound answer.

L-33   So, and seeing as they went along talking about that, and then I brought my thoughts of that. And I walked out of the... off the platform, and went out. My children, going home, wanted to stop out here somewhere, to get a sandwich. And I went in, the wife said, "Billy, I was so nervous I didn't know what to do." Said, "I gave you that Bible."

L-34 I said, "You never wrote it, and you never put it together, honey."

L-35 She said, "But, just to think, I--I give you a--a Bible that had a flaw in it."
I said, "Well, maybe it wasn't."


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