<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Now, remember the services coming on. I suppose they've made all those announcements. So, straight to the service so we won't keep you long as possible.
I wish to read some out of God's Word, God's Eternal Word. How I love It. And now the messages which are not very much, but some people might say, "I like those," or, "I would like to have it cause they was there." Gene and Leo, Gene Goad and Leo Mercier, my friends, are setting here with recordings and can produce them and others are taking recordings also along here.
Can't hardly see. A brother taking my picture as I come in out there, and I was looking right in the camera, and everybody looks kinda like blackout to me, and I ought to have knowed better than to look into that flash bulb. But I just... Fine little boy and he wanted the picture.
So now, in the Scripture tonight of the Acts of the Holy Spirit in the Apostles, and in the 1st chapter we read these words as a text tonight, and may the Lord grant us the context of these words, and then we shall pray for the sick.
Beginning at the 5th verse of the 1st chapter of the Acts:
 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
When they therefore were come together, they asked him, saying, Lord, will thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.
But ye shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and... all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.

L-6 It was said to me a few days ago, that God had taken all the power away from His Church of Divine healing and of miracles; Divine gifts and callings of the Holy Spirit ceased with the apostle's age. I said to my dear friend. I said, "I am a believer in what God says in His Word, for He said, 'Let every man's word be a lie but Mine be true,' and I can show you in the Bible where He gave that power to the church, but I can never find any place where He ever taken it away from the Church. So It is still the same Divine promise."
We are to speak tonight, God willing, for the next few minutes upon the subject of "Witnesses." "You shall be My witnesses, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth." That is to everywhere. "Ye are to be My witnesses after the Holy Ghost is come upon you."

L-7 And now, there was the Gospel must be witnessed to all the earth, beginning at Jerusalem, and to go through Judaea, Samaria, and all over the earth. And according to statistics of the church and of... We have only witnessed to one-third of the earth to this time. Two-thirds of the earth has never known or heard the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. What a disgrace for two thousand years of commission given by the Creator Himself, and we have been so neglectful, until two thirds of the population of this earth has never heard the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, in order to be a witness, a witness must first be qualified. In the courts of our land, in the Supreme Court, and all the courts of justice, a witness must be first examined before he can be a witness. And if the courts of our land in justice would require an examination before becoming a witness, then how much more will the God of heaven require an examination and a qualified witness before we are recognized in His sight as a correct witness.


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