<TITLE>11. Par 111-120</TITLE>L-111 Now, notice. Then when He was here, the things that He did... When He going away, He said to His Church, after His resurrection, He said, "Lo, I am with thee always, even to the end of the world." Their eyes were opened. They understood it.
Peter and them, before that, after being a bosom friend with Him, walked with Him, talked with Him... And Peter said, "Oh, I'm so discouraged. After this death up there, and they buried Him, I'm--I'm so discouraged. I believe I'll just go fishing." So the disciples were standing around, and they said, "We'll just go with you." So away, they get their net, discouraged, believers once, mental theology. They believed once in the natural. But when a little trial come up, it all went to pieces.

L-114 Now, here, I don't aim to hurt you, but I want to correct you. See? That just shows when a man only has intellectual faith by saying, "Yes, that's the Word of God. Yeah, I believe God rose up Jesus on today." Then that, if that's all you've got, the first little discouragement comes up in your church, away you go, go on out. See? You might be a friend to Him, but you don't know Him in the power of His resurrection.
Never one time after Pentecost did that preacher, Peter, ever say such a thing as that. When they got ready to kill him, they was going to hang him on a cross. He said, "I'm not even worthy to die like that. Turn my feet up, my head down, because my Lord died in that position with His head up." Yes. Never, never... See? He was with Christ then, but then Christ was in Peter. Peter was doing the leading then, and after the Holy Spirit come, then the Holy Spirit was doing the leading. Peter was in the backgrounds, and the Holy Spirit led on.

L-116 Now, if you've just got--if you've got good reasoning, you'll set down and try to reason out the Bible, reason, "How could He raise from the dead? How could these miracles and things take place today in this great realm of civilization science that we live in?" You try to reason that out, you're just getting farther away from God all the time. You'll never know Him by reasoning. God's not known by reason. God's known by faith. You accept it. You believe it. You can't do it until something happens in you, then the Holy Spirit comes in and you have the mind of Christ.

L-118 Notice. They, all night they fished and caught no fish, very discouraging. The next morning, early, at the sunrise service, they looked across the bank, and there stood Jesus. But they didn't know Him. That's the sad part. They didn't know Him.
One night, the little old boat was just about to sink out on the sea in the storm. And here come the lovely Lord walking towards them. They said, "Oh, go away. It's a ghost. It's spooky. We don't want nothing to do with it." The only thing that could help them was near them, and they was afraid of it.

L-120 And may I say this to you people today who's never received the Holy Spirit. I realize in the church realms, we've got a lot of mockery. We got a lot that pretend to have the Holy Spirit when they don't have it. That's right. So have you got in your realms over there too, claim to be church members, and they're not. That's right. So where there's a pro, there's a con. Remember that. Where there is a negative, there's a positive. Where there's a bogus dollar, there's a real one. And where there's somebody mocking and pretending to have the Holy Spirit, there's a genuine Holy Spirit. Remember that.
And the very thing that'll help you, the very thing that will deliver you, the thing that'll take you out of your prison house of habit, take you out of your prison houses of fear and upset, thing that'll take you away from the cancer and make you a living creature again, the thing that'll raise you up in the last days, stands right near you, and you're scared of it. Don't be afraid. It's Him.


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