RR: Now that’s the key. That’s the key.
ORU: And I asked Him what I must do. He said, “Take your Bible and study My reward system.” Now, partner, I had never heard that term, God’s reward system. I knew God is a good God. I’m one of the men who originated that phrase, God is a good God, back in the late forties. And I went to my Bible and as He directed me, I went to Mark’s gospel, chapter 4, about the four ways how people plant their seed. And Jesus told, some plant by the wayside, some plant in stony ground, some plant among weeds, and of course the seed does not grow and produce. But the fourth way, He said, “Some plant in good soil and they receive a thirtyfold return, a sixtyfold return, and a hundredfold return and they can determine the percentage of their return thirty, sixty or a hundredfold by the quality of the soil that they plant in.” And He said, “Don’t ask your partners for new money. Don’t ask them for new money. Ask them to redirect some of their giving where they don’t know that money is causing souls to be saved or the sick to be healed, to redirect some of that money into the scholarshipping of the medical students of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine and they will not have to have those debts, so they can go to these nations and open them up for the gospel. (Applause) And if they do, I will give them a hundredfold return, either in money or in what money cannot buy.” Then he directed me to a Scripture that I knew about in the Bible but I had not paid a lot of attention to. Here in Proverbs 6, verses 30, 31, “Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his soul when he’s hungry. But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold. He shall give all the substance of his house.” Here God says through Solomon that when the devil, and that’s what He’s referring to, the thief is the devil, when he steals from us–and who hasn’t been ripped off by the devil?–God will give us a sevenfold restoration. And that, as I said, I knew about that, but I had not really studied it. Then He led me to Joel, chapter 2 and verse 25. He says, “I will return to you what the locust has stolen,” or taken away, “what the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, the caterpillar and the palmer worm. I will restore those years which the locust hath eaten.” Now we know who the thief is. John 10:10, Jesus said, “The thief (or the thief) cometh not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy.” We know who it is that restores. God said, “I will restore the years that the locust hath eaten and the cankerworm and palmerworm,” all forms of locusts. He said, “I will restore them.” And in the sixth chapter of Proverbs, He said, “I will restore seven times what has been stolen from you.” So I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “The hundredfold return for the seed that you plant to put My medical presence in the earth,” and I caught that term “medical presence.” I said, “God, I know that Jesus said He came to preach, to teach, and to heal.” Preach, teach, and heal. “Now You’re saying that You must have your medical presence in the earth.” He says, “Yes, because many of the nations will not take ministers and evangelists unless doctors open up the way. And I also heal through doctors. I heal through medicine, and I heal through prayer. Now,” He said, “you tell the people to redirect some of their giving. Don’t ask them for new money, to redirect some of their giving where they don’t know for sure that it’s winning souls to Christ or it’s healing the sick. And I will restore to them one hundredfold and I will return to them (Applause) seven times what the devil has stolen.” And now here it is in July. And, partner, you have a letter in my hand in which I’ve asked for a two months pledge, a pledge this month and a pledge next month, for we open school around August 20th and we have 48 in the medical freshman class, have 192 medical students in all. And God told me to scholarship everyone of them and have them sign a contract that for every year of their scholarship they give a year as a missionary doctor, even in this country where there are areas not covered by medical science and the gospel and in Canada certain areas, but mostly in the nations in the Third World. And do you know, Richard, as of today of the 192 scholarships we have to raise, it’s $8 million a year, God has given us the money for 15 in cash and 34 are pledged. We only lack, let’s see, 49 from 192. Anybody help me out there?