<TITLE>16. Par 44-48</TITLE>L-44 That's the same with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. "What makes it so?" I don't know. God sends It. I drink It down. That settles it. As long as--as long as God sends It, that's His provided way. He sent it by a crow that day. He sends it by the Spirit today. So, I just set down, eat and drink and have a good time.
They say you're crazy. Go right on. That's all right. Hallelujah. Long as I'm staying God's provided way, as long as I'm setting at the fountain, so I can eat and drink when I get hungry. Amen. Oh, my. How wonderful.

L-45 There's some people one time that was worried about Jesus going away. Jesus said, "Don't worry. I've made a way for you. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet you'll see Me. For I'll be with you, even in you, till the end of the world."
"Well, how You going to be with us and not in the world? I can't understand."
Said, "I'll tell you what you do. You want to get in God's provided way?"
"Sure."
"Just go up there to the--at the Jerusalem and wait there until the Holy Ghost comes."
"Well, how's the Holy Ghost going to come?"
"I don't know. You just go there and wait."
"How long we going to wait?"
"Until."
"Well, do You mean two hours?"
"Until."
"Maybe just a week?"
"Until."
"Until what?"
"Until you're endued with power from on high."

L-46 Acts 1:8. "But you shall receive the Holy Ghost after this the... You shall receive power after this, the Holy Ghost has come upon you. You'll be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and Connersville, Indiana, and the uttermost parts of the earth." What? After you become a deacon? No. After you get out of the seminary? No. After you become a preacher? No. "After you have received the Holy Ghost, you shall be My witnesses with power throughout the entire world."
Every God-called witness must be endued with power from on high before he can be a witness. A witness has to know something, see something, know what he's talking about. Amen. I feel religious. My, I sure do. How wonderful He is.

L-47 Say, I got to have a healing line in a few minutes to pray for the sick. Let's come to a close quickly. Let's not leave those Pentecostal people in that room up yonder though. They was waiting to find out what God's provided way was, to see what kind of a way God's got to provide.
So they was waiting there, and Peter said, "You know, John. I'm ashamed of the way I treated the Lord."
And he said, "Well, you ought to be." They got to talking with one another. And one of them said, "Well, I was a Pharisee."
And the other one said, "I was a Sadducee." Well, they got that all out of their heart. And when they got all in one accord, setting in one place, then suddenly there appeared unto them a--a God's provided way. Is that right?
Now, now, the way we--we like to holler at the Catholics... So the way the Catholics would have it today. And here come the father up the road with a little box under his arms. He had the--the holy sacrament in it. And the people licked out their tongue and--and the priests drink the wine. And that's... They call it holy eucharist. That's receiving the Holy Spirit.

L-48 Why, you laugh at that. But be careful, Protestants. You're no better off. Now, the way we do it today, Dr. So-and-so give a very good lecture this morning. And the people changed their membership from the Methodist to the Baptist. And they come up and give him the right hand of fellowship and walked away. That's just as unscriptural as the other is. Right.
That's right. But brother, the way the Bible said it, they were all in one place in one accord. Now, here's God's provided way, not to shake hands with the preacher, and take the right hand of fellowship, and write your letter to the church. That's just as wrong as the Catholicism. So pot can't call kettle black. That's right.


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