<TITLE>09. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 What if you had an artesian well over on this mountain and a crop burning up over on this mountain? You set there hollering, "Oh, you great gushing water, you great gushing water, go over there and water my crop. Oh, you great gushing water, go over there and water my crop." You'll make yourself hoarse. It'll never move.
So you can scream; you can cry; you could shout; you could run; you could speak in tongues; you could jump up-and-down; you could sing songs; you could preach the Gospel; but until you work in harmony with the Holy Ghost, you'll make yourself hoarse and get nowhere. Right. I... You believe that? That's right.
But now, look. That water will water this crop if you'll work with the correct laws of gravitation. It'll pull that water right around there and water that crop. If you'll work according to the laws of gravitation, that'll water will run. But you can't make it jump over there.

L-29 Now, the Holy Ghost will heal every person in here if you'll work accordingly to the plan and will of the holy Scriptures. There's enough--enough Christians in this city today, enough Christians in this building today to close the heavens over Phoenix. Did you know that? But you've got to work according to the--the will of the Spirit.
Now, that's what we're trying to do today, is to place the believer in his right position, so he can see where he's at. How you going to do just running anyway? You're just beating the air. You get what I mean?

L-30 Now, in Ephesians, let's hear Paul's pleading, now, as you read, every one if you will, and try to be just as reverent as you can as we're speaking the Word.
 Paul... apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God...
The first introduction shows how he was apostle, called the apostle of God by, apostles by the will of God. In one place he said he wasn't called of man, neither was he sent of man, but God sent him. Now, the first thing, he was the apostle... The word "apostle" means "a missionary" or "one sent." "Missionary" means "one sent." And "apostle" means "one sent," both the same word.
Now, man can send a missionary, or God can send a missionary. Man can send an apostle, the Episcopalians and things, call themselves the apostles of the church and so forth. They're apostles of the church. They lay hands upon them and send them out. Then God can send a apostle, one sent.
So don't think you could lay your hands upon Paul. God laid His hands upon Paul, knocked him down off his horse, and he rolled in the dust there, as it was, standing up, and Christ speaking to him. Paul was sent of God, not of man. His calling was Divine. So if his calling was Divine, written in the Scriptures, a vindicated by his ministry, I believe what Paul said in the Scripture is the truth.

L-31 Paul said in Ephesians, I mean in Galatians 1:8, he said, "This Gospel was so sure, that even if an Angel from heaven come and taught any other Gospel, let him be accursed." Notice Paul now:
 An apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God...
Now, he's presenting it to them which are at Ephesus, to the faithful in Christ Jesus. Now, watch. He said...?... this letter, that first he was an apostle by the will of God. God called him to be an apostle, and he said to those that are in Ephesus in Christ Jesus.
Now, not just the whole... Today the American version of it it's sent to a nation, to a place, to a city, or to a church. Paul never only sent it to the church; He sent it to those that were in Christ Jesus. That's what the letter was for, not for the outsider, but for those in Christ.


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