<TITLE>04. Par 36-41</TITLE>L-36 Look, if the church (I say this with respect) if the church can't produce no more than reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the psychic side of the Gospel, the Indians are finished. The Indians, like the natives of Africa, has got to see the power of God in demonstration. Been sending missionaries over yonder for fifty years, in Africa. And when the supposed-to-be Christians come, they was packing little mud idol under their arm. Why, the missionary told them... Why, about healing, they got healing out of the idol, not through the idol, through God; God winked at their ignorance. But when it come to a place where they was to be healed, the missionary said, 'Oh, those things, their days are past. We got that in the seminary. See, that's already passed. There ain't no such thing as that." Well, he carried his idol for healing.

L-37 I told him that the very God the missionary talked about, was the Head of all healing, and proved it to them on the platform, then they accepted Christ and went out into the jungles and there. One of the fellows out there, that went out, is baptizing on the average of a thousand a week, right now, native theirself. That's missionary. God's doing a real quick work.
How many hear "The Wings Of Healing," Doctor Wyatt and them; and a bosom friend of mine, Raymond Huckstra? 'Course he's preached right here at the Tabernacle, Raymond Huckstra. He went up into East India, up there, and had a revival, and had thousands of converts up in there. See what God's a-doing? Oh, oh, look, there's...

L-39 Let me ask--say this. Let me give you a illustration. Here, here's one sphere; here's another sphere; and here's another one. Now, down here is the nominal church; now up in here, here is the sublime, here's where we're supposed to be, right next door to heaven, where the powers of God is leaking down. All right. It's drops on this, drops down through to this one, then down through to this one. This is the nominal church; it just goes on, just on cold professions and--and a little ritualistic affair; that is the nominal church; they just get the very slight drippings; the next church, up here, Full Gospel, gets some of the blessings, but they go off into isms; if we've got to lift up into this next sphere here before we can ever have a rapture. It's exactly. That's right. You got to get up in That before we can ever have it. And that's true.

L-40 Now, and there you mark that in your Bible. He has never told me anything, never since I was a baby. And that Pillar of Fire... And my own mother setting back there now, that fifteen years old when I was born, she opened up the little window, and the Angel of the Lord come in and stood there. That, from that time, since I can remember, He's never told me one thing that's wrong. And here I am in the city right where I was born and raised. Some of you all, strangers, seek around through the city, and ask any persons if ever one thing was told in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass just exactly like It said. So I know It's all right (See?); It's God.

L-41 Now, and at the end of that, end of that vision, I seen my Bible coming to me, and It turned over to Joshua 1. And that has constantly been before me. Oh, just, I can't get away from it.
And tonight I want to read that, 'cause it's taking the children of Israel over: Joshua, the great leader. Then we'll drop back into Numbers, and pick up our lesson, and come out with it in the next twenty or thirty minutes, or something like that. We'll have the baptismal service, and that we make our--you can make ready for it.


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