<TITLE>09. Par 32-36</TITLE>L-32 On their journey now, we find them at last night up to Kadesh-barnea, borderline. We found out when they come up to the border to go over, they sent some spies over to spy out the land, ten men, or twelve, one out of each tribe. And ten of them come back all discouraged.
We typed that also with the age. We typed them three stages of the journey with the three dispensations of grace to the Church: How that Martin Luther rose up by justification, leaving Egypt. And how that we find John Wesley rose up preaching sanctification. And now, we find out that Pentecost is raised up, the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the restoration of the gifts.
And when the Church moved up to that land there, Pentecost moved up to there, all the Church moved up to that age, they sent out and they said, "We can't do it. We'll be fanatics. It'll ruin our church; we can't do this." But God had somebody to go over and bring back the evidence that it was a good land. I like that land. Oh, my.

L-33 They say, "Oh, we'll be... The people will think we're crazy if--if we try to go back to that again."
Well, brother, they would say you're crazy anyhow. So... You know, I've been a lot happier since I been this kind of crazy than I was when I was the other way. So I'd just soon stay this way, for myself, just stay like this. He takes care of me and loves me, and I love Him, and He's good to me.
So we find out that a many of them just stay along the border. That's the way today. We have a lot of borderline preachers, that'll just preach part of the truth but won't accept the rest of it. They believe Jesus was born virgin birth, truly; believe He's the Son of God, truly. All very orthodox in those things, but, oh, Divine healing and those things, that were for the days--some other time: "That ain't for today." That's a borderline preacher. I like the full Gospel, myself, for a full man. Preach the Gospel; preach the whole Word of God. Believe it all. Practice it all. Amen.

L-34 Someone slipped me a little pamphlet as they come in awhile ago, said, "Read this, brother, as you go in."
I looked, where a certain church in this city... Now, it's got a skull talking, a human skull. Hmmmm. I'm so glad that my Lord's done raised from the dead, He's talking. He's alive, not an old dead skull. Oh, how thankful we are to know that He has raised from the dead. And tonight we have the Holy Spirit as a witness of His resurrection.

L-35 And we find out now, Israel up here at Kadesh-Barnea. The great judgment seat of the world one time, the big spring and several little springs, typing the great judgment seat, white throne in heaven and the churches, which is the... Judgment begins at the house of God, for the judgment. And there Israel was on the march, moving.
This morning when we was stand at the Christian Business Men, Brother Hicks had us all singing, "Onward Christian Soldiers," I thought, "Yeah. That's right, long as you're marching all right, but don't stop."
Israel made its mistake when it stopped. If they'd have went on, they'd have possessed the promised land right there, for God gave them the promise. He's good to His promise. They'd have went on over in, but they stopped marching. And you notice, when they start--stopped marching, they started wandering. That's what happens.

L-36 Always when the church stops... That's what happened a long time ago to Pentecost; it stopped. You started organizing, putting them all in different groups: Assemblies of God, Church of God, Foursquare of God, Oneness of God, Twoness, Threeness, Fourness, oh, all these other things. You stopped. Why didn't you move on? Now, you been wandering forty years in the wilderness. But the sovereign grace of God will take us on through anyhow.
Wandering around... God said, "I would've given them rest right then, if they'd have went on." Said, over in the Book of Hebrews, "rest," type of the sabbath.
Now, I'm not speaking at you Sabbatarian people here, but the day was only a shadow.


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