<TITLE>16. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. What the Methodist left, the Baptist eaten. What the Baptist left, the Presbyterian eaten. What the Presbyterian left, the Pentecost eaten. Till it's got to a place, God... Why, you stripped the tree of everything it's got. All the power, all the joy, all the good things that God give to His Church on the day of Pentecost, they've tore it out. Nothing left but a big church name. Haaa. Hallelujah!
Brother, let me tell you what this world needs tonight is a gulf, a Church. Now, the old dead tree is standing there. Oh, sure. "We got a name." Sure. You was once a tree but what about now? That's the Pentecostal church too. Got the hardest kick I ever got about Divine healing, was from a Assemblies of God man. That's exactly right. He told me that he...

L-50 We had a armory down at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and we couldn't have enough seats. We had several thousand people. He had a great big lot of seats. He said... And anybody that believed in Divine healing, couldn't even set on his seats. Oh, my. What a shame.
What's the matter? Watch the same thing. You've took the route of the dead tree. What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. The Baptist took the shouting away from the Methodist. And one eat this, and one eat that, till they stripped the church down till they got them setting just as dead as a doornail (Right.), no Spirit, no shouting, no joy, no peace, no healing, no nothing. How? Oh, my. What the Methodist left, the Baptist eaten. What the Baptist left, the caterpillar eaten, or some other church. And this one eat this, and this took that away, and this took that away. You haven't got nothing but just a church creed. Hallelujah! You know that's the truth. That's the truth.

L-51 What one left, the other eat. Until you ain't got nothing but a big dead tree. And every time God sends a big rush of glory down, you just set there and moan, and say, "I don't believe it. It's psychology. It's this. It's that. It's this. It's that." And...?... will move... Dead from the roots up: twice dead, plucked up by the roots. It's a sad looking day.
When Joel looked at that and saw that, he said, "But God said, I will restore, saith the Lord." Hallelujah! If that wasn't in there, I wouldn't know how to preach it. "But I will restore, saith the Lord."

L-52 I happened to look that night there when that wind was a blowing through, how stiff, and starchy, and dead it was, setting there moaning and groaning. When... Didn't have no life to bend with it, no bark on it to make it flexible. It was just there moaning and groaning on account of the wind. Huh. My, my. "Dr. So-and-So said so-and-so." Oh, my.
But I happened to notice, down underneath there, was some undergrowth coming up, some little bushes about like that. They had life in them. When that wind begin to hit them, they was just twisting, and ringing, and shouting, and having a glorious time. Let me tell you, brother, God's going to raise up a generation of people out of all this dead stuff that's going to restore, saith the Lord.
God's going to raise up people who believes in signs and wonders, going to raise up people who's got joy unspeakable and full of glory. And when the rushing mighty wind comes, it gives right in to it, and frolics, and dances, and glorifies God. Hallelujah! Green leaves a clapping their hands and having a wonderful time and... Well, what a frolic that little undergrowth was having. But that big old tree, standing there just moaning and groaning: same wind.


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