<TITLE>10. Par 32-34</TITLE>L-32 Now, look when this Angel was a whirling above them in a sign of a Pillar of Fire. That was in the nighttime. In the daytime it looked like a white cloud circling over them. And when they was under this, He said, "Now, I'm going to send him before you." He said, "Now, I have given you Palestine. All of it's yours; just go and possess it. That's all you have to do."
Well, here they started, God blessing them and giving them great big joys, and great big revivals, and so forth, as they went. And they come right up there, and because they seen it was all possessed all over with a great big opposition, they were scared. God said, "How long will I suffer with you?" He said, "Moses, step out of the way, and I'll slay every one of them. After I performed these..."
If that ain't a picture of the Pentecostal church today, said, "As many miracles as I perform before them and showed in the face of the unbeliever that I have called them. And I performed these miracles, and yet they won't believe Me." What a--what a rebuke to the Church. "As many things that I've done, I've healed the sick, the lame, the blind; I've raised the dead; I've performed miracles; I've done everything all across the country, and yet, they won't believe Me. I give them the Holy Spirit, brought them into the covenant." Did He do Israel? Sure, right through the Red Sea, the baptism, on out, give them joy, happiness, performed miracles and fed them. Still they disbelieved. And He said, "There's something just a little bit beyond."
"Oh, we're satisfied to belong to church. As long as we go to church, it's all right, I suppose."

L-33 Here come Joshua back, and Caleb, and said, "The land is real. Here's the evidence." Praise be to God. "Here's the evidence that God's promise is true. We have the evidence here to prove it."
They said, "Well," the others said, "You can't do it. You can't do it. You get too much fanaticism mixed into it. We just can't, over... If you do, we're just going to break up all of our congregations. We're going to do this..."
My, if that ain't the same old whine today. That's right. "Oh, it'll never work; I tell you; you can't make it work." No, we can't make it work, but He Who said it would work is able to make it work. If He can ever get people enough under His control, get so submitted to Him that He can do it, I'll say that God will do it. We got the evidence today that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, raised from the dead, and is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And we're headed towards the millennium. Hallelujah. How I praise Him. We're going in one of these days. The Captain of the host of the Lord is a coming. The Lord Jesus Christ will take us over.

L-34 Joshua, the saviour... Moses, a type of the church organization, who brought the law and so forth, failed. Why, how did he fail? Glorifying himself in the stead of God. Is that right? So is the church today, trying to see who can build the biggest church, who can get the best dressed crowd, who can get the Mayor of the city and all the celebrity into the church. That's what the program is today, as the Baptist said, "A million more in '54." I don't care, a million more what? That's it. A million more joiners? You haven't got nothing yet. I'd rather have one filled with the Holy Ghost, and full of God's power, than a thousand times thousand church joiners. Rather have one alive with God who'd believe.
It's not how many we can get to join the church; it's how many we can get in Christ Jesus, to believe and submit themselves, find their position and stand like the Rock of Ages at their post of duty, and ready. Oh, I hope God just settles everybody in here tonight, and just let you know what to do. This great crisis, we're at Kadesh-Barnea. We would've...


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