<TITLE>12. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 And Mary said... Martha said, "When comes--whence cometh the mother of my Lord? For as soon as thy salutation come into my ears, my baby leaped in the womb for joy."
And I think if the first the Name of Jesus Christ was ever spoke through mortal lips brought life to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned-again Church (My.) that's filled with the Holy Spirit? Amen.
Notice, my dear friend... Billy, my fifteen minutes is collapsed, but I--I'm still feeling good. Let me alone just a few more minutes. All right, when I think of that, how that--that--that power of God in there.
If I'd ask John, I'd say, "Who is this Man? What do you think of Christ? Whose Son is He?"
John would say, "When I was--received the Holy Ghost in my mother's womb, so I'm told. At nine years old I went to the..." Not seminary, he went, not to some school, he went out in the wilderness to live with God. Brother, that's the seminary we all need today,  not so much about genealogy, but a little bit on your knees, what settles the question.

L-44 There when he was thirty years old, he came out of the wilderness, not with a tuxedo on or his collar turned around the back, called Reverend, Doctor, Father, or something another, but he come out of the wilderness with a sheepskin wrapped around him and he preached repentance till he stirred all the regions around about.
Brother, he was filled with the Holy Ghost. He didn't draw any punches. He laid the axe to the root of the tree. And every tree that didn't bring forth good fruit was hewed down. That's what we need today is some more John the Baptists filled with the Holy Ghost in that manner, that will not pull punches, but will tell the truth regardless of who it hurts. The churchanity, handle with gloves on... Take off the gloves and handle it bare-handed.
There John, said, "What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?"

L-45 He said, "The One that told me in the wilderness, 'Upon Whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on, He is the One's going to baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire, Whose fan is in His hand. He will thoroughly purge His floor and will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire, and the wheat will he take to the garner.'"
What a testimony of John the Baptist. Let's call his mother. If there's anybody ought to know Who He was, His mother ought to know Whose Son it is. Don't you think so? Mary, come down from the glory Land just a few minutes and testify to the Philadelphian church this morning. What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He? Now, you're His mother, you ought to know."

L-46 She said, "I didn't know a man." Hallelujah. "I didn't know a man, but one day on a Monday when it was wash day, I had some water in my arm, in my hand, I was going up to the well from the virgin springs. And I was going along and a great Light flew before me and there stood Gabriel the Archangel, said, 'Hail, Mary, blessed art thou among women, for you're going to have a baby knowing no man.' Said, "How can these things be, Lord?"
She said... The Angel said, "The Holy Ghost shall overshadow you, and that holy Thing that'll be born of you shall be called the Son of God." Amen. I believe Mary's testimony's right. Right. What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?
I don't care how many atheists rise, how many this, that, or the other, He's still the virgin born Son of God. Yes, sir.
She said, "I didn't know a man, but He that said to me, 'Go... that there--that--that I'd be overshadowed by the Holy Ghost and it would be called the Son of God.""

L-47 What if I could call this morning... What if I could go call E. Howard Cadle, an old friend of mine with the Cadle Tabernacle, was a drunken sot laying out yonder, and the flies blowing his mouth and the vomiting in a barroom and a... What do you think if I could go to the celestial realms of glory and call Howard Cadle down this morning to testify? You've heard his broadcast for years through here.


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