<TITLE>06. Par 24-28</TITLE>L-24 But remember, Joshua was right in the Church all the time. He was the one who taken them over. And today, the very signs, and wonders, and phenomenals, that's been in the church... Every time they had a revival through any age, these signs has broke out in the Church. And they been all down through all these church ages. Just like Joshua come with Moses all the way through. But the church age ceased with Moses, and Joshua took the children of God into the promised land.
And I believe that the age has come now, the miraculous, the phenomenal, the baptism of the Spirit, and power, and signs, and wonders, this great pouring out of God's Spirit in the last days, and that's the thing that'll bring faith into the people that'll take a rapturing faith that'll take the Church into glory. I believe it.

L-25 How can the Church be raptured when we haven't even got faith for healing? We got to have rapturing faith first. That's right. How that God moves by His Spirit, signs and wonders begin to follow; everywhere God begins to move, signs and wonders follows God.
The world has always stood off and criticized it. From the... From Adam down, they've done it every time. And it--it's nothing new today, that you should be criticized for the... accepting Jesus Christ and for His...

L-26 Now, if you accept it in some fanaticism or--or persecuted for the wrong thing, why, you deserve it. But now look, if you have really, God is working with you, proving Himself by Bible evidence of signs and wonders, then you rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven.
Moses in his journey, bringing the children of Israel, God gave him a promise. Now, as God led that in the natural, so is He leading the Church today in a spiritual. Now, they were going to a promised land, out of a chaos into a promised land, from the ridiculous to the sublime.

L-27 Just like it is today. We're bound for a promised land. Do you believe it? Jesus said, "In My Father's house are many mansions." Is that right? "I'll go and prepare a place for you and will come again and--to receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be, also." We're bound for that promised land.
Oh, how that thrills my heart. When I begin to see it, my shoulders just swaging down and knowing that I don't know how long now... I have no way of knowing that. But I know this one thing, that after the breath's left this body, if I'm true to Jesus Christ, someday I'll pass into that land yonder.

L-28 Not long ago, when Billy and I... He was a little bitty old boy, I never will forget it. We was going down to his mother's grave on Easter morning. He was packing a little flower in his arm. And he took off his little hat. He was about eight years old. And he begin to snub and crying. And he almost stumbled and fell, when he knew his mother and little sister was in the grave.
I put my arm around the little fellow, set the flower down on top of the grave, a little old cheap flower. We couldn't afford very much. I put my arm around him; I said, "Honey, the body of mother and sissy lays here in the grave. But let's not look at that. Let's look across the river yonder; there's an empty tomb in Jerusalem, where One rose from the dead, and they died in Him. And He said, 'Those that are dead in Him, will God bring with Him at His Coming.'" Yes, sir.


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