<TITLE>05. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 Now, in this state many times... Jesus never gathers with people just to be gathering. Christ never did anything loosely. And I think that's the trouble with the church today. We take too many of the things of God loosely. And now, I perceive that this is a Pentecostal gathering. And listen, you're my brothers and sisters. But the Pentecostal people are too loosely with the gifts that's in the church, and that's the reason God can't respect them. See? You just let them go any old way. They should be governed and put in order.
And we find people interrupting the meeting by speaking with tongues and so forth, when "The spirits of the prophets is subject to the prophet." I'm not saying they don't have a gift, but they misuse it, and it throws a damper. If the Holy Spirit's speaking at one place, He will speak there until He's finished. See?
And we so misuse these things, just letting it go free lance. That's just as good as the devil would want too. That's right. If them...?... gifts had been set in order, and put in its place, there'd had been a revival sweep this land today that's never been exceeded. We don't lack power; we lack knowledge. We lack faith. You got power. Any man that's borned again has--the whole heavens is open to him.

L-17 I was talking to a doctor not long ago. He said, "I studied to be a preacher one time." Said, "And I got to that virgin birth. I read in India where they've had virgin births, and virgin births." And I said... He said, "I just forgot the whole thing."
I said, "Doctor, you're trying to compare the ridiculous with the sublime. You can't do it. There's not a one of them can prove their virgin births. There's not a one of them can prove their gods to be so. Christianity is the only one. Only Founder that ever said, 'I have power to lay My life down and take it up again. Because I live, you live also, and I'll be with you, in you, to the end of the world. And the things that I do you'll do just exactly like I do 'cause it'll be not you, but Me in you.'" That settles it. Mohammed couldn't make that promise. Buddha couldn't make that promise, or no other founder could make that promise. Christ alone could do it. That's the reason God said, "Hear ye Him." He's the final authority.
Now, notice, how beautiful, how the Scripture so gives us these wonderful promises. And every promise in the Book belongs to the believer. See?

L-18 You people here in this country's apple raisers as I understand. You have a lot of agriculture, raising fruit. You know when you--that little apple tree's just about one half of an inch high, that every bushel of apples that'll ever come off of that tree is in it right then. You know every hundred pounds of leaves that'll ever fall off of that tree is in it right then. Every blossom is in it right then. Every branch is in it right then. If it isn't, tell me where it comes from. Where is it at? Where does it come from?
What do you do? You take the seed and you plant it. The little tree comes up, and it's planted. You have to keep watering it. It has to drink more than its portion. It has to drink, and drink, drink so much till it pushes out. And it'll push out limbs; it'll push out leaves; it'll push out apples. It's in it, but it has to keep drinking.
And every Word of God is a Seed. And if that Seed can be planted by the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, which is Christ, the believer has to drink beyond his imagination, drink and push out. Push out everything you have need of, 'cause it's in you when you receive Christ. And we are planted together in Christ. And He is the inexhaustible Fountain of Life.


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