<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 So we notice that Jehoshaphat had seen the results from that kind of a life; he'd seen the results from his father when he served the Lord, then when he didn't serve the Lord. So all of that together and taking it under consideration, Jehoshaphat had purposed in his heart to serve the Lord and to cling to the things that his father David did at the beginning. I like that: "At the beginning..." the Bible said.
In other words, he went back to the old landmark and then they clean out the rows. It would be good for Pentecost to go back to the old landmark. It would be good for all of us to go back to the old landmarks and clean out the rows. What would happen today in a... I'm talking to, I suppose, mostly Pentecostal people here this afternoon. What would happen if actually the church went back to the old landmark? You talk about a cleaning up, there'd really be one around a Pentecostal church; it sure would. Now, how many knows that's the truth? Why, sure it is. There'd certainly would be a certainly, a--a reformation going on. Oh, how people would be acting different, dressing different, talking different, and it would--it'd just be altogether a different church if we went back to the old landmark where we started from.

L-16 Now, so then God blessed him. God will bless anyone who will go back to the old landmark of the Bible and start from the Bible, not according to theology, but from--or some man-made theology, but from true Bible theology, and start from the old landmark and move up, God will move with you.
So God begin to bless Jehoshaphat, and the first thing you know, He begin to prosper him. And he built up all the garrisons, so that these uncircumcised and the--could not come in. And that's what the churches needs today, is a garrison of the old time apostolic teaching, so this lukewarm, formal, in-and-out, up-and-down, doesn't get into our church. What'd I say? That's right, though. That's right. We have permitted too many things to creep in, brethren, too many things that we left the old landmark from the beginning to creep in; we never garrisoned the Church. And now we got everything in it. That's right. All "isms" and "hism's" and--and everything else in the Church, because we never garrisoned by the Word.

L-17 I was speaking today at lunch with Brother duPlessis and Brother Joseph, and was speaking about foreign missions and a worldwide revival, that a worldwide mission journey that I'm fixing to take around the world, in every city a few nights, every major city in the world. Then thinking of the follow up. I said, "It's like..."
They said, "If you don't have the follow up, then you lose what you--you went after."
Like I had a--a bullet in my hand. I told you what a famous shell that was, how the velocity of this shell will penetrate at a certain distance, and what a--a--a muzzle velocity it has, it'll travel at the speed of five thousand feet per second over the old fashion gun that made it travel, oh, a thousand foot per second. Now, the shell is all right, if I place that--the cartridge into your hand, but what can you do with it? You haven't got a gun to use it in.
So, there you are. We've got to have a follow up; we've got to have a garrison; we've got to have the Church set in order, marching, a great front to go forward. We're just losing time until the Church gets in that kind of a condition. We'll find a few here; that's true; but not like we would if we were all one great undivided group of people, one great big front.


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