Acts 17:1-3 - Part I (Research material) - Corps Notes - October 26, 1976
You see, through the years, the Word and its depth just began to grow on me gradually. What I’m
going to do here tonight, I could not have done thirty years ago. I could have shown you a little of
what I was doing, but I could not have done in totality, naturally, what I’m going to do tonight
because I’ve got thirty years more experience in it and learning.
I’m going to try tonight, and this is most unusual when I do this (this is like laying my heart all open
and all of you walk all over the thing). I’m going to try to show you how I work the Word before I
come to teach you or any of the other people in the Corps at anytime, and about a lot of other things
that may enter in.
I would not expect you to be able to do, at the present moment, what I am capable of doing. Not
because of my egotistical position, but because, after all, if you’ve had thirty to forty years working
something, and you had only one year; it would seem axiomatic if you keep working that the man
who has worked thirty years should have a little more knowledge than the fellow who has just been
in it six months or a year. And, of course, when you work long enough you retain some things in
your mind, then when you hit the same wording, the same usage of words, the same construction,
later in the Word, you don’t always have to check it out and refer back to it because of your recall.
And, of course, after all of these years and stuff, many times I don’t have to go back to checking
things if I am just generally teaching.
Publication Date: 10-26-1976
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