<TITLE>13. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 Two of the greatest things in the Old Testament that I can see in the prophesies, two great factions was this: the people looked forward to a time to when the Messiah would come. And then after the Messiah come, they looked forward to a time that the Holy Spirit would come. Finally in due time, all the types back there that they had through the prophets and everything, all the types and the atonements they had, finally the Messiah come, and it was settled because God had said so.
Then they looked forward to a time to a great glorious Church, that would be without spot or wrinkle, that would shine in the earth as a star. They looked for that time. How's it going to be? He'd been dead for three days and nights; He rose again; He appeared unto the five hundred, and He ascended into heaven. He left them on earth here alone. How could it be this glorious Church when the Leader was gone? God promised the Church, how could it be? The Light that would shine in His place after Him being gone, when He said there, "A little while, and the world sees Me no more; yet you'll see Me: for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. The things that I do shall you also. Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe."

L-49 How can they do it with Christ absent from them? How can they do it, when God give them the promise? But look, God provided a Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost in Person came down and took over mortal man's body, after they'd been cleaned by the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Holy Ghost took that person into His own control and sent him forth with signs and wonders and miracles a following. God provided a way.
They couldn't do it in themselves; they were men like you and I. How could they do it? They couldn't. But God provided a way of escape. When they was... After the upper room, they thought the people would make fun of them; they thought they'd be this, that, or the other. They had the windows all closed and the doors locked. How could they do it? They were cowards; they had no backbone; they had a chicken wishbone, and not a real Holy Ghost backbone. They had the doors locked; they was afraid; they was ashamed to walk out and face the public. How could they do it?

L-50 But God sent a Pentecost, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. They flung the windows and doors open, and in the streets they went. God promised it. When God promises, God will keep His Word. He will make a way of escape. He will never suffer you to be tempted above anything that He won't make a way of escape for you. He'll do it.
Here we are; we've lived through the day of a dismal day, cloudy, rainy; the Church is halfway in and halfway out. They wonder how can they do this, and how can they do, had no Light. But the prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening time." How can it be? We--the Church in this day, that glorious Church that's to be here on earth when Jesus comes to receive a glorious Church... We're receiving the latter rain to pour out a double portion of the Holy Ghost is coming on the earth and is sweeping every nation, and revival fires are burning on every hill. In China and Japan, from Korea to dark Africa, and everywhere, the Holy Spirit is being poured out upon the people. God made a way.


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