<TITLE>10. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 Jesus said, "I am the Door to the sheepfold." I used to wonder why--how He could be a Door. In the orients I find out that the shepherd is the door. He brings the sheep in and then lays down at the door to be sure the wolf or nothing else goes in there without him knowing it. Has to wake him up. He is the door. There's only one door to the sheepfold. The rest of it is a panoramic. Amen.
"I am the Door to the sheepfold. By Me you enter. No man can come to the Father except by the Son." No man can come by your church. No man can come by your priest. No man can come by any idol. No man can come by any man-made theology. "I am the Door." And if you come through Christ, you... Christ's life was taken at Calvary, opened up a wound in His side, and through there poured out the Blood, the invitation to the Church. And the only thing it does is clean a lost sinner and go right back into the same God he come out of. Amen. The Holy Ghost... Jesus said Himself, "Except a man be borned of water and of Spirit, he will in no wise come to my supper." You got to come by the water and Spirit.

L-34 There they were. When this robe come on... I don't mean some big robe that some company made out here. That's on the outside for man to be seen. But the robe that Christ gives you... You say, "Is it a robe?" Yes.
He told the woman that said, "Let my son set on one side and the other..."
He said, "Can you drink the cup that I drink? Can you be robed, or baptized with the same baptism that I'm baptized with?" He said, "You will be." Amen.
The Holy Ghost that was in Christ comes into the believer that's got the invitation to the supper. And he's counted as son, because he becomes a part of the Father (Amen.), a child.
I know you think I'm crazy. But if I am, let me alone; I'm happy this way. I feel better this way than I did the other way when I had my right mind. Oh, it's wonderful, joy unspeakable and full of glory.

L-35 When that robe comes in there's a little hidden power that comes down in your heart that all devils in hell can't make you doubt it. That hidden power, not with a great big something across your forehead, and a Doctor of Divinity wrote this way... It's a inside hidden power. Amen. It's been God's program since the first lamb was slain in the garden of Eden, or outside the garden. Right.
Samson had it. He had a hidden power, a touch of the Holy Ghost. Now, a lot of people say, "Samson had shoulders like a barn door." Well, it wasn't... Well, some of these here artist that tries to paint his pictures... That would be no mystery to me, to see a man with shoulders like barn doors to slay a lion, or take up a gate and walk away with it. But Samson was just a little bitty mama's boy, a little curly headed shrimp, about like that. Now, that's what fooled the people. And he was just a ordinary boy, had seven little curls hanging down his back, looked like a little sissy. That's right. Everybody would laugh at him, a type of the Holy Ghost Church. And he was a weakling. But when the hour come that God wanted to use him, he was a giant, brother.
God wants a Church that He can lay His hands on. I don't care how little it is. "Two or three gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst," not just speak it.
Then you say, "Well, we gather in His Name." Speaking the Name of Jesus by word is not what He meant, so much as it is the attitude that you're gathered in, the environment of the Name of Jesus. "When you gather in My Name, then ask what you will." It's the--the motive that you come in, the attitude. It's an attitude instead of so much of a calling a Name. Sinners call that Name on the street, curse it and everything else. But it's the environment that you're in, the attitude that you come, coming in Jesus' Name.


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