<TITLE>15. Par 158-167</TITLE>L-158 Notice, here they was. My, what a time. Wonderful meeting they were having. Cornelius said, "Now, you go down there and ask for one named Peter." And said... Never heard of him before.
And Peter up there, thought, "Lord, I'll take a little nap just before I eat dinner. I'm so hungry and tired." And when he laid there, he fell in a trance. Scripture says so. Then I believe he fell in a trance, don't you? And when he did, he seen a sheet coming down, all full of creeping things. And a voice said, "Rise, Peter. Slay and eat."
He said, "No, Lord. I'm a Jew. Nothing unclean or common's ever went in my mouth."
He said, "Don't you call that common what I made clean." Said, "You rise." Said, "There's somebody waiting for you down at the gate, and go ahead; don't doubt nothing. Follow him." Amen.

L-163 Now, Peter, and his sanctimonious ways, you know. He kind of had some prestige around the people, so he had to watch what he eat. He was a Jew. He had been raised up a--a strict Presbyterian, you know, or something, and he had to watch what he was doing because of his church affair.
So the Lord said, "You follow them Gentiles, not paying any attention to what's done or whatever. You go on up there." And when he went up to the house of Cornelius, straightway, Cornelius gathered all of his people around. And he told him how he saw the Angel. He said, "Now, Peter, I--I sent for you."
And when Peter got up there and begin to preach, "While Peter spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them," and they was all filled with the Holy Spirit, begin prophesying, speaking in tongues, and having a marvelous time. He said, "Can we forbid water?" Now, these has received the Holy Ghost before they was baptized. And he commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And Peter tarried with them certain days.

L-167 That's the apostolic Church moving in the Spirit, wherever God said. Peter done without his dinner. Peter went down to follow the Lord.
And God could ever get a man and women today in this tabernacle, anywhere else, that'll pay no attention to what's going on around them, but submit themselves to the Lord, as an individual unit, God will lead the same man today, that He led then. He proves that He's with us. What we need today is a humble, submitted life. Submit yourself. Don't squeeze yourself back. Don't do nothing but leads straight with the Holy Spirit. What the Spirit says do, do quickly. Don't say, "Well, I'll wait and find out what this is and that is." What the Holy Spirit says do, go do it.
What if I hadn't have went to Finland when the Holy Spirit called me over there? What if I hadn't went to the hospital yesterday, where that little baby was laying there dying; hadn't have went? It's, "Obedience is better than sacrifice." Do what the Holy Spirit says do. What we need tonight, is to let loose of a lot of our little old squeezy ideas, and let the Holy Spirit... You are taught here. You know what's right and wrong.
But what you need tonight is a great big bundle full of the love of God poured out in your heart, all differences washed away. Bury it with the old year as it passes out. Let it go. Let's start a new life, a new beginning. You can't... If you're already born in the Kingdom of God, you've already got the Holy Spirit in you, the only thing you have to do is cut loose from these things of the world that's holding you down. Said, "Let us lay aside every weight and the sin doth so easily beset us, that we might run with patience, the life, the race that's set before us," Hebrews the 12th chapter. Lay aside the weights.


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