<TITLE>03. Par 10-14</TITLE>L-10 If I come confessing tonight that I had the spirit of a--an artist, you would expect me to do the--the work of the artist. You'd expect me to be able to catch the vision of a roaring sea, and things of home, the sunset, if I had the spirit of an artist.
Listen closely. If the spirit of some great artist come upon me, like the Spirit of Elijah--Elijah came upon Elisha... If the Spirit of Elijah was on the Elisha, he done what Elijah done. And John the Baptist came in the Spirit of Elijah, and he was, wild man, so forth like the other two had. But when... Now, he come...?... something like Elijah did, he run into the wilderness; and John then asked if this is the Messiah, should he look for another one. He come in--in that spirit.

L-11 If I came in the--the spirit of--of John Dillinger, you would expect me to have guns and--and act like Mr. Dillinger did. And if I told you I came here, and I'm a Christian, and the Spirit of Christ is upon me, you would expect me to act and do like Jesus did, for His Spirit would be upon me. Is that right? Then what He done, "These things that I do, greater shall you do; for I go to My Father." Is that the Scripture?
Now, the Spirit of Christ is in the Church. It has never left the Church; It's been in the Church. And the days are growing evil, because that knowledge, man's knowledge, that he received in the garden of Eden... When he left the Tree of Life to eat from the tree of knowledge, that knowledge is increasing constantly. And as knowledge increases, they get away from the Bible and get into a theory. But Jesus said, and the Bible's full, that when they came... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... And now, the power has come, for the world has become very skeptic.

L-12 And I believe that we're living in the hours just before the coming of Jesus the second time. Now, upon that, in speaking that the Spirit of Christ still is in the Church and in the people... I'll explain to you how the gift came and how it works.
I was born of a humble parents, borned being a Catholic. I was born in Kentucky.
And I believe that gifts and callings, as I said, are without repentance, that you're born here in the world with these gifts. Just the same as you're born to be a musician. You might give your child, give it all kinds of lessons. But if that musical talent isn't in it, it'll never do no more good. Is that right? But we're born the same way in the spiritual realms, for gifts and callings of God are without repentance. That you might know, Jesus Christ was foreordained of God. He was the One was seen from the garden of Eden. Do you believe that?

L-13 John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness said Isaiah. Is that true?
Jeremiah, God told Jeremiah, "Before you were born from your mother's womb, I knew of you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations," before he was ever born from his mother's womb. Moses and many others, foreordained of God. Not everybody, but different gifts and callings to minister to the people are the foreknowledge of God. That's the only way I can expect any understanding to the people who come and see it.

L-14 I was a little boy, first recognition. I have it in my book, it'll be out pretty soon. My mother's own words concerning what taken place, a little cabin the morning when I first came. I never come here by my own power. You never come by your own power. I never knew when I was coming. I don't know when I'm leaving, none of us do. We may yet some of us may leave the world before the night is over. I do not know.
But I was seven years old; I was packing water from a well, and a voice spoke to me out of a bush, as a whirlwind in a bush, said, "Don't never smoke, or drink, or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work to do when you get older."
I said, "That's sacred."


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