<TITLE>11. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Notice, there's where the trouble is. There's why we can't have spontaneous healing. When I stood at Durban, South Africa, and saw something happen here on the platform, and twenty-five thousand people got healed at one time. They took seven car loads, truck loads, cattle trucks, of crutches, wheelchairs, and everything off the ground. And thirty thousand raw heathens come to Christ at one altar call right then. They wasn't indocumated. Well, they didn't go there and say, "Well now, Doctor Jones said that was mental telepathy. Well, Doctor Henry said that that was fortunetelling." They had no Doctor Henrys or Doctor Joneses; they just come with simple childlike faith and believed it. That's right.
But oh, we Americans, my, we're so scholarly, and so touch-untouchable, you know. We know all about it. That's the reason God can't get in. You won't listen. That's the reason the church is not progressing. The light fell on the western country; that's right. But what a scrupled up bunch it's got to be. Now, you know that's truth. Why, this church should be a light here, brother, that the world would be flocking to it. Sure. Where the very Holy Spirit Itself going forth with power and manifestations, and people won't walk across the street to hear nothing about it. See?

L-38 Now, He keeps bringing Word. But what if he says, "This is a wonderful child. Oh, he's zealous; he's trying hard. He's doing everything that he can do to see that everything's progressing right." Then what happened? At a certain age...
Now, you Pentecostal people's not too old, you know, in your ways. Lutherans are old; Methodists are old; Baptists are old. You Pentecostals are a young church. But just as sure as anything; you got yourself so tightly organized, and fussing among one another, God's going to put you on the shelf with the rest of them denominations, just exactly. You just drawed barriers and little isms, and so forth; you cut off the fellowship. God can't work with you. I see it.
Why, one meeting in Africa would bring forth... Well, I--just what little time I made there was better than a million converts in the European tour. How long you think it'd take that in America? They don't--they're not... They haven't got the ecclesiastical embalming fluid in them. See what I mean?
Notice. I'm not saying that for a joke. This is no place to joke. This is a pulpit. See? I'm saying it because it's a place to push a truth out that you can see it, and put it in such child way that you can understand it. You see what I mean?

L-39 Notice. Now, when this child become at a certain age, if it'd have been a correct child, had been zealous of the father's works, had been stable, always abounding in the works of the Lord, not tossed about with every wind and care, not one day a Presbyterian, the next day a Methodist, and the next day a Nazarene, the next day a Pilgrim Holiness, tossed about like a leaf on a troubled sea. If it was stable, its mind, no matter where it was at, set on Christ, his affections, working with one single heart, zealous of getting souls saved and not the church's fusses...
Then in the Old Testament there come a day that this father brought his son out into the public as a witness, put a robe on him, and set him up upon a great place where all the city could see him. And they had the law of adoption. This father to his own son, who had been borned in his own family, and now was of age, and was a child worthy to take his place, he adopted, or placed his own son into position. Any Bible reader knows that: the placing of a son. Then after that ceremony, that son had a right, his name was just as good on the--the check as his father's was.
There's where the church should be today. "The things that I do shall you also; more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father."


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