<TITLE>03. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 So He gave this commission to the disciples, or the hundred and twenty that they should wait at the city of Jerusalem until they were qualified to be witnesses.
There was a certain specification that they must meet before they could be qualified as a witness, and this witness was to be... This qualification was to be the coming of the promised Holy Spirit to fill the Church with unction. And the word "unction" comes from the Greek Word, "dynamite" where it means to--an explosion. They must receive something first before they can be a witness.
God never sends a man, until first He has made this man a--a qualified witness. Now, in the court, before you can ever be a witness you have to either be an eye or an ear witness. You can't say, "Lord, somebody said, somebody said, somebody said." They'd throw your case out right now. They will not receive that. Any attorney knows that, that you cannot be a witness unless you have seen it yourself. Not what somebody else said. You have to see it and hear, either see or hear before you can be a witness.

L-9 And God did the same thing at the day of Pentecost, when He... They heard the Holy Spirit coming like as a rushing, mighty wind, and they saw tongues of fire set upon each of them. They were both eye and ear witnesses, that God had fulfilled His promise in sending the Holy Spirit to the believer.
Now, God-called witnesses are always qualified witnesses. When God spoke to Noah in the antediluvian world, before the discussion, He spoke to him and told him to prepare an ark for the saving of his household. And Noah with only the witness that God was God, that there was somewhere in an unknown world to the human being, that there was another place where an Intelligence lives.

L-10 He was a witness, and therefore, being a witness he moved with fear and prepared an ark. And the building of the ark was a testimony to his faith, that he believed that there was a God and this God would keep His promise. For He moved, not having any clouds ever pass the sky, never had rain ever fell from the skies, but God told him in a voice, that He was going to destroy the world with water, and it was going to rain. And Noah gave testimony of this thing and confirmed his testimony of his belief by building an ark for a rain that had never yet fallen. Witness that he believed...
And it's a very beautiful picture today of people who have never yet seen God, and maybe has never yet seen a move of God, but yet with reverence to His Word move up into the realm. There are people setting here tonight, perhaps, that's dying with cancer, with heart trouble, that's never seen a healing service where they prayed for the sick. Maybe come out of churches who in their theology that condemns the very thoughts of Divine healing, but yet something within them is moving them out to take a stand tonight for Divine healing, yet has never seen a miracle performed; but there's something.

L-11 It's coming to God to believe. And he that cometh to God must believe that He is and a Rewarder of those who diligently seek him, to reward those. They're coming tonight though never been a witness, but coming to take their stand as a witness before anything happens.
They will be called to the platform to stand here before their fellow man, maybe to return to their church with criticism, maybe to go out into the street to be mocked by their doctor or something of that, to be represented in a bunch of people that believes in such things in this modern day. But they are moved like Noah was, and yet without any sign, they are coming to be a witness of His healing power. Not only that but a witness of His resurrecting power and of His Holy Spirit baptism.


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