<TITLE>13. Par 62-65</TITLE>L-62 My. Well, then I was discouraged. I said, "Lord, You said I will restore."
And about that time the wind dropped a little lower. And when it did, I noticed there was some undergrowth coming up. (Hallelujah. Glory.), some more little trees. They wasn't as starchy and burnt up with denominationalism; they were in their evangelical...?... They were interdenominational like Israel was. God said, "You'll never be a nation no more." And she won't be. They were interdenominational.
And when the winds begin to blow, and these little trees begin... That wind begin to hit, them little trees begin to frolic and jump and dance and carry on.
I thought, "Hallelujah, 'I will restore, saith...?..." The same power of the Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost...
If them old mournful churches want to mourn and say, "Well, I'm a Methodist, I'm a Baptist," mourn on, there's an undergrowth coming up. Hallelujah. The life left the tree, but it's coming up again.
Every time the wind blows them little trees just dig down and get a better hold. That's right. "I will restore, saith the Lord." God is raising up.
That first rain's done past. The blisters stuck, the power went out of the church. But God in this last days is sending the latter rain now (That's right.), the power of the Holy Ghost coming back. As sure as He sends the wind and rains, there's a tree standing there to rejoice.
How happy they was, them little trees just a bending with the wind. So that wind said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
The little tree said, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, I believe it. Hallelujah, hallelujah, I believe it."
The other tree said, "In a sense it was."
Fundamentally, they were just as much tree as what this little fellow was. But, brother, they couldn't bend to the Spirit.

L-63 And tonight that's what--or today, that's what's the trouble, these great big churches can't bend to the Spirit, because they're so organized it would break up their organization. That's right.
A strong wind in Israel is coming up, called back-wash and holy-rollers. Hallelujah. Just as flexible as it can be... That's right. Got life in them. The new tree was alive; the old tree was dead. That's the reason they can't bend, because it's dead: dead.
But there's a new birth coming on. The latter rain's being poured out in these last days: power, signs and wonders. And the same joy them old trees joyed a long time ago has come back in a new generation. Amen. "I will restore, saith the Lord." There it is.

L-64 Let's look at the great Saint Paul. When he stood there with his eyes of faith, looked across the seas of time, he said, "In the last days it shall come to pass." How in the last days they'd be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God: go out on Sunday afternoon and play golf instead of having a church, close it up on Sunday night 'cause it's too hot to come. Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good.
"Oh," you say, "he's talking about infidels."
No, he wasn't. "Having a form of godliness..." Fundamentally, just as fundamental as the other one was: "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
I did, and I become a holy-roller (Hallelujah.), that when the wind goes to blowing I can give in to it, say, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You're the same Jesus Christ that rose from the dead. You live yet today." And the Spirit of God just sweeps It from one side to the other.
You think we're crazy, but we're not: just got Life and flexible. Go ahead and mourn on if you want to, but God's moving His--that undergrowth coming right on up. She's going right on in the seed.

L-65 Look, I'd like to stand with Saint Paul this afternoon and say this, "In the way that's called heresy (or foolishness, crazy), that's the way I worship the God of our fathers." And what the world calls today holy-roller, that's the way I worship Jesus Christ.


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