LR: You know, one of the things the Lord spoke when He had Oral open up the school was that the students’ work would exceed Oral’s work and in that God will be well pleased. Well, you know, you’ve got to travel a lot of miles and lay hands on a lot of people and pray for a lot of people to exceed Oral’s work. But this is one way that that prophecy can be fulfilled, because when we send out our teams, they’re going to all the nations where we can’t go as individuals. One man or one woman can’t go to all those places. But the more medical teams we send out, the more students we send out, the more healing teams we sent out, they’re going to infiltrate the entire world. And that promise will be fulfilled then. (Applause)
RR: Well, dad, everything is on the line.
OR: Pardon?
RR: Everything is on the line. We must do what God told us to do. And I’d like to just interrupt and say something. I’m not saying this because my father is here, I’m not saying it because I’m his son. I’m saying it because it’s true and the truth isworthy to be heard. Here is a man who was dying with tuberculosis, his sister came in and said to him, “Oral, God is going to heal you.” He was converted, received Christ because he saw Jesus’ countenance in his own father’s face, in my grandfather’s face, Ellis Melvin Roberts. He was converted. He was carried to a healing crusade where a preacher was preaching and praying for the sick. His brother Elmer, my oldest Uncle Elmer, took him. And God spoke to him in the back seat of that car and said, “I’m going to heal you and you’re to take My healing power to your generation.” For more than 25 years he traveled the nations of this earth, more than 46 nations, preaching the gospel, winning many times more than a million souls a year to Christ. All right, he did what God said. Then God said, “You are to build Me a university.” And as you look right now you can see this great campus. You can see a university that’s unlike any university on the face of this earth, Spirit-filled young men and women, Spirit-filled faculty, staff and administration, students who are learning how to hear God’s voice and how to prepare themselves to go to the nations of the earth. When God said, “Build me a university,” friend, you’re looking at it. Then God said, “Build the City of Faith and put prayer and medical science together.” He had no plan of building a hospital. He was told to put prayer and medicine together. But the other hospitals, for some reason, for some reason which only they know, they decided not to allow our medical students to do their clinical work in their hospitals. So we had to build our own hospital attached to the City of Faith. But thank God, it’s over there. Prayer and medicine are being merged together right there at this very minute while I’m talking to you. (Applause) God said, “Build the Healing Outreach Center and build a Journey Through the Bible.” The first phase is open. We’ve been talking to you about it. And you say, well why are you telling me all this, Richard? Why are you giving me this history lesson? I’m doing it because here is a man who has said, “God told me to do this and I did it. Now God told me to build a university and I did it. God told me to build the City of Faith and I did it. God told me to open the Healing Outreach Center with the Journey Through the Bible and I did it.” All right, here is a man who has credibility in America. If any man in the United States of America has credibility in what he says God told him to do and then he did it, then his name is Oral Roberts. (Applause) Now I’m not saying this because he’s my father. I’m saying it because he’s a prophet of God. He is an evangelist. He is an apostle. He is a trailblazer, and God has said to him, (Applause) “Turn your medical school around.” Now I think–there are many things that I love about my father–but I think the thing that I love most is the fact that he will die, he will die doing what Jesus told him to do. He will be obedient. And the Bible says, “Obedience is better than sacrifice.” (Applause) I’ve seen him make many personal sacrifices in his life, but that is no comparison to the obedience of God. And here is a man who is willing to pay the price, who has been willing for many years, who continues to be willing, and is saying to God, “God, I want 20 more years.” And when Oral Roberts says, “I want 20 years,” he doesn’t mean ten years of health and then ten years like a vegetable. He means 20 years of health, 20 years of doing God’s work. (Applause) And God said to him, “You must do this.” Now he’s a man who is obedient. And you need to hear what he’s saying today because this not only can turn the medical school around and turn foreign missions around and put God’s medical presence in the earth, but, friend, as a direct result it can turn your life around. It can turn your shattered life into a miracle and bring you the needs, get your needs met in your life. And I’m serious about this. This is, this is something that is a mandate from God.