<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-45-206 And your Sudan Missions said, "We have no place for a man that would speak in tongues."
And he come to me and said, "Somebody speaking in tongues?"
"Why, why," I said, "they have no place for Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ spoke in unknown tongues, and died, speaking in unknown tongues."
They couldn't accept Paul's teaching; Paul spoke with tongues more than all of them.
One said to me yesterday, said, "I'd rather speak five words with understanding."
But Paul's teaching said, "Covet prophecy, and forbid not to speak with tongues." And they are forbidden to speak with tongues.

L-45-212 Speaking in tongues is a Divine gift of God which belongs in the church just the same today as it was back there in the beginning. That's exactly the truth. Yes, indeedy. That's the Bible teaching. It's a Divine gift, and you deny that just the same as you--you deny the new birth, you deny everything that Jesus taught when you try to cut that out.
Now, you can go wild on that; many of them have. But I'm saying, "That has its place." It's just like a pair of shoes; when you buy a pair of shoes, the tongues are in them. And that's right. When you're into the Body of Christ, God has the whole table set full here. He has love; He has joy.
If I went to your table and set down there, you said, "Preacher, come eat with me," I believe you love me. And you had beans and potatoes and carrots and fried chicken and pumpkin pie and ice cream, everything setting there, why, I believe I'd be just as welcome to the potatoes as I was to the beans. The only thing, I believe I'd be just as welcome to the chicken as I was to the pie. It's all on the table. And the only thing I have to do is say, "Would you please pass me some pie?" I believe with a good free heart, your love to me, you'd say, "Certainly, my brother, have a nice big piece of it." Is that right? If I'd say, "Would you pass me potatoes?" "Why, certainly, my brother, here it is."
And every redemptive blessing that Jesus Christ died for and purchased in His atonement at Calvary, it's setting on the table and every believer's setting before it. Hallelujah. If I need healing, I say, "Father, pass me some healing," and I pour it out on my plate and eat a big... Now, if you want to starve to death, go ahead. Yes, sir. And prophecy, speaking in tongues...

L-46-216 And--and then the man wrote in there; he didn't know that I spoke--had spoke with tongues myself. And he's writing this book, you'll find it; it'll scatter the nations. And besides that, this man has got twenty-five outstanding ministers of Moody Bible Institute seeking the gift of speaking in tongues. The fundamental people's turned upside down, "The Christian Life," this--this month, look at "Christian Life" magazine this month on page nineteen, and look at that great doctor of divinity said, "Shall we accept this? Have we lost something?" Hallelujah.
I hear the abundance of rain coming. If people twist it around the corner, but it's come to a place that God's giving the Gentile world a shake with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, pouring It out with all of Its fullness and powers and signs and wonders.
The reason I hold... The Pentecost has been pushed out on the corner and went wild on different things like that; the time wasn't ripe yet. That's the reason they've had all this fanaticism. But that's God's Divine promise and God's Divine Word, and It has to come to pass, for God's done said so. And I believe just before the ending of the Gentile dispensation that God will pour out on fundamentalists.


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