<TITLE>06. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Oh, sometimes this costs a price to really say it. Sometimes it cause separations in homes. Sometimes it causes separations in churches. Sometimes it cause separation in lodges and in all walks of life, sometimes between husband and wife, to really speak out.
But I like Peter. He has a lot of mistakes like I have. But this one time he was really inspired. Yes, he stood up quickly, said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Oh, my, what a statement. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has did this. And upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." There you are, inspiration, inspired revelation. Oh, how he was inspired, standing there in the front of the Messiah Who was the Word. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father. And upon this rock I'll build My church."

L-19 What is it? It's upon inspiration (You see it?), upon inspiration of the Lord Jesus Christ through His Word. "I will build My church; and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." Though it shows all the gates of hell would be against it, but they cannot prevail.
God said, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, I will raise up a standard against it." God will do it. And when all the gates of torment is pressing against that little church, yet it will never prevail. She will go right on.
I think of the disciples in the early days when they're just a little handful of people, with all--no education, no ability, earthly speaking; they had no degrees; they had no--they had no denomination behind them; they had nothing but one thing, and that was the Holy Spirit they had received on the day of Pentecost. They didn't need no more, for God had already said, "Upon this inspiration, I will build My church."
Why, the ecclesiastic world of that day was well able to shut them out. The great Sanhedrin Courts could've turned them down. And if they'd been standing in their own philosophy, or in their own theology, they would've been smothered out in the beginning. But nineteen hundred years has passed, and the gates of hell's still against it, but she's moving on and will; for Jesus said it cannot.
Inspired... That will take the rich man, the poor man, the beggar, whoever he is, and set them together and call each other brother, who will worship the Lord together without shamefaceness.

L-20 The Bible said, "My people shall never be ashamed." How they're fully able by the inspiration of God to declare Jesus Christ the resurrected Son of God, Who's just the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And if the old time Pentecostal blessing that fell in A.D. 33, is just as great today, and inspires men just the same today as it did then, and brings the same results. Regardless of critics, and what people has to say, it does just... It'll do that because inspiration will always bring it. If the Word is put in inspiration, then the results has got to come.

L-21 Look at the beginning of the human race when our father and mother was drove from the garden of Eden. And in that great tragic time, notice, that when Cain and Abel comes to worship the Lord, they both came, and religiously, both just one as religious as the other. Cain was just as religious as Abel was. And they both built altars; they both feared God; they both worshipped; they both brought offerings and laid on the altar. And Cain, trying to appease God, and trying to find favor with Him, with sincerity...
Many times people think sincerity does it. That doesn't do it. "There is a way that seemeth right to a man." And if there's anything that man ought to be sincere about is about your Eternal destination. That's right.


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