<TITLE>13. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 "I will restore," saith the Lord. Restore what? What it was in the beginning, the first early apostolic church. Pentecostal, Methodist, Baptist, whatever that we want to call it. It was right there in the beginning, the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. In there they had signs and wonders and miracles.
There come a man by the name of Peter. They knowed he was a prophet. Old Ananias walked up before him one day, and he said, "I sold this so-and-so."
Peter said, "You're lying." Is that right? Went right down with that Spirit of Jesus Christ upon him and said, "You kept back a portion of the money." It frightened the old boy so bad till he fell dead, and they packed him out. And here come his wife in. Peter said, "You're into it, too." And away they packed her.

L-50 And they looked and seen that Spirit of discernment that was on Jesus Christ, was on Peter just exactly. And the people didn't wait for him to pray for them. They just laid them in the shadow. And when the shadow passed over them, they got well, every one of them.
Then we today who claim to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost and have to wait for something to be done. Oh, hallelujah. I feel good. All right. God is here. God is here to make well. He's here to heal. He's already healed. The only thing He wants you to do with the Spirit like in this church right now, with the Holy Ghost waving over here, anything could take place. You believe that? The Holy Ghost could come right down now and heal, or save, or do whatever He wanted to in the meeting.

L-51 We're going to start the prayer line in a few minutes. I want every one of you to be reverent. "Abide With Me," if you will, sister on the piano, play it if you will. And I want everyone reverent. How can you deny Him?
"I will restore," saith the Lord. You say, "I don't understood those people, all these things that's going on. I don't understand how you..." Yeah, you set up there and call it mental telepathy. You think I'm a witch. Did you know that Jesus Christ was con--considered the same thing? Do you know all of His apostles was considered the same thing?
They boiled John in a vat of grease for twenty-four hours, trying to boil the Holy Ghost out of him. How can you do that? Because they thought he was a witch, and they said he bewitched the grease; Agtobus, and many of the great writers and...?... Policarp and many of those, when he stood in that fire there that day with his hands up praying God. And the fire wouldn't even burn him. They said, "He bewitched the fire." Throwed a spear in his side, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs," and enough blood run out to put the whole fire out. Then he said, "He bewitched it with blood." When it was only about a gallon and something of blood in a man's body. It was God. And the world knew it not.

L-52 "A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you in Owensboro, Kentucky, or to the uttermost parts of the earth." Is that right? "Even to the end I'll be the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Truly, I thought you had faith. Truly I've given...?... I could pray for you and lay hands on you, sure. That's it. But I thought surely you Pentecostal, Full Gospel people, you good spiritual Methodist, Baptists... There's plenty of them over their in the Baptist church and Methodist church that's spiritual yet. That's exactly right. Don't tell me. I'm going right now into a bunch of them, second from this meeting here. If you don't believe that they...
Not Baptists, down here in the hills of Kentucky where we Baptists was. We wasn't like you Baptists around here, shake hands and put your name on the book. We got down at the altar and beat one another on the back till we come through. We got something. We need some more like that.


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