<TITLE>20. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 We got today the apostle's creed. I challenge that to the Bible. There is no such a thing as apostle's creed. If there's any apostle's creed in the Bible, it's found in Acts where He said, "Repent every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. You shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise is unto you and your children's children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
That sounds more like an apostle's creed. "Now, I believe in a holy Roman Catholic Church. I believe in communion of saints." Anybody that believes in communion of saints is a spiritualist. That's exactly right. Saints are dead; they're in the Presence of God. There's no mediator between God and man but Jesus Christ. Amen. That's right. Oh, how you get yourself all twisted up. My, it's a shame...

L-69 See, I don't want to blame you people; it's the pulpits where it started. No wonder that's the damnation of the country, when Satan got in the pulpit. It's the truth. Failing to preach the unadulterated Word of God, and the Word of God will produce just exactly what It said It would do. But we explain it all away. "It's all away. It's for some other day."
Could you imagine somebody standing at the platform, saying the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Divine healing, and that's for another day? It's like trying to introduce a man freezing to death, and paint some fire for him, and say, "There's a fine fire." That's what was. You can't warm by a painted fire.
That was fire one time, but what about fire now? Holy Ghost had power at Pentecost through the first age, second age, and on down. What about this age? He's the same Holy Ghost today. The same power, the same signs, the same wonders, the same miracles, if He can get the same kind of faith amongst the people. God doesn't change.

L-70 There, what a time--dark hour. The church has turned them out, because they believed on Jesus. And He'd turned them down, seemingly. My, it was a dark hour. But just at the darkest of hours, then Jesus come along. That's usually the way He does it; just in the darkest of hours Jesus comes along.
Maybe it's your darkest of hours, sister, but Jesus comes along. Maybe it's your darkest of hour. There's been women sitting there this week in wheelchairs--walked. There's been those who was on stretchers; there's been those who've been bound for years and so forth around the world everywhere--up walking. Maybe it's yours with heart trouble, worst enemy you got, and sickness. Maybe you can't live over another few days, but Jesus will come along. Just in the darkest of hours He comes along.

L-71 Now, when He come along, things begin to change. Little Martha, she had been kind of dilatory and in all the things of the world, but I... about food and making tables ready. But you know, I kinda like her now. She, as soon as she heard Jesus come, here she started to see Him.
Now, I see her pass by. And say, "Hey, they tell me that holy roller... Ha-ha. He wasn't here when Lazarus died, was He? So, we--we see He's slipping back to town now, after the funeral service is over." He just passed right on by them.
Now, I believe that Martha had in her mind some Scripture. And here's what I think she had. When the Shunammite woman in the Bible, when Elijah passed by and she was blest and give a baby. And the Shunammite woman, when she seen the baby had died, she said, "Saddle a mule now, and go forward, and don't you check unless I bid you. We're going to get to the prophet."
And she knowed that that was God's representative. And if she could get before the prophet, she knowed God was in His prophet. And if she could only get to that prophet, she would find out why her baby had died. She'd know.


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