<TITLE>14. Par 54-58</TITLE>L-54 What we need is not Pentecost, but the God of Pentecost. You're coming to the Jordan, men and women. Each one of you is coming down to the Jordan. I don't know when that may be. It may be before daylight for some of us.
But I tell you; there's coming a time that when you're going to need more than a an old moth-eaten robe of some church. You're going to need the God that set that church afire in its early days. You're going to have to have the vision that they had in the early days that wore this. But the new schools has come in, and the holes has been eat it, and the doubts and superstitions and theologies and things till the thing is no good at all. Call for the God of Pentecost. That's what we need today, truly.

L-55 The servant of God has to call on God. He has to depend on God, not his church, not his robe. He has to depend on God. God's asking him to do the impossible. In order to do the impossible, you've got to call on God for power of God to perform the impossible. If we be the Messiah's servant, we have to have the Messiah's power.
And He promised it to us, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches. I energize every branch that brings forth fruit." Hallelujah. There you are. There it is. Yes, sir.

L-56 And one of these mornings, I got to come to the river. And when I do... Probably all Branhams if I live to be old, I hope I am, long beard and hair hanging around me... When I come to the end of the road, and I know I've done my best, I've fought my last battle. I want to take off the helmet and lay it down on the beach right here at the Jordan beating against the side of it. Want to lay the shields down, take the old sword of faith, and stick it back in the sheath of eternity, and scream out, "God, send out Your...?... I'm coming home this morning."
As the poet said, "He can see Adam turn over and shake Eve and say, 'Honey, wake up. It's here.' Eve reached over and got a hold of Seth and said, 'Wake up, honey. He's here.' Seth took a hold of Abraham, said, 'Wake up, Abraham. It's here.'" There's going to be a great wakening up time some of these mornings when the Jordan begins to beat the bank. I want to know the God Who makes His way through the Jordan, instead of having on some moth-eaten robe.

L-57 As I was speaking not long ago concerning a certain thing that taken place in Switzerland. When I was in Switzerland not--about a year ago up in them great Swiss Alps there, there's a name that we used to know in history here that's almost forgotten. You men and women about my age remembers when we had it in school. It was the--the history of--of Arnold Von Winkelried. What a mighty man.
In the days when Switzerland pulled away and went up in there, the little countries of no ore in the mountains, but they have little farms. They still live that way, a lovely, sweet people who love the Lord way up in the mountain top.

L-58 And then when the invading armies come in one day, all the Swiss gathered in a little field down at the foot of the mountain to protect their little mountain homes. And when the--the invading armies moving in a great massive bunch, well trained, spears, armor... And every man like a stone wall moving to his place, coming right on in to destroy the Swiss, ravish their women, kill their babies, take over their homes, take what they had.
The little Swiss army gathered down there with not nothing to fight with, pitchforks, and--and--and old scythe blades, and whatever they could pick up to fight with, no armors, nothing to fight with, but stood helpless by the side of a mountain. What did they do? All around them come this great army moving on like a big wall, moving in, tromp, tromp.


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