<TITLE>09. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 And as I looked at those trees, I wondered, "What about them?" And then I thought, "Yes, there comes the wind from heaven just like it always did." And Christ is the same. On the day of Pentecost there was a mighty rushing wind who came from heaven and the people received it because they were flexible. They were willing to take God's way.
But we find out that now when God sends down a great healing campaign, or great miracles and signs, and the signs that were in the Bible returned back to the Church, what does the great intellectual group say? "The days of miracles are past. There is no such a thing as Divine healing. There is no baptism of the Holy Spirit. I will give my congregation to know this, that just the poor, just the outcast, just the--the illiterate type of people attend those meetings. Go around to them and find out." And true the man is. The man is true when he says that. It's usually the poor, the--not the intellectual type. It's the uneducated type. "It's the common people who heard Him gladly," said the Bible.

L-28 Now, we will notice again, if you will. Then I thought, "What's the use of sending any rushing mighty wind if there's nothing to receive it?" But God is sovereign to His promise and He has to send it. He keeps His Word. "A little while and the world will see Me no more, yet you'll see Me, for I'll be with you to the end of the world. And the things that I do shall you also." God's got to send His promise.
I thought, "Well, Lord, what will happen?" Then I happened to notice. Listen. Then I noticed that after these trees, in their falling, their great cones that they had, there was some little seeds dropped out of these trees and out of these cones, and they were--they were absolutely the life of that tree. And it dropped off onto the ground, and though the fire passed over, and though all these things happened, yet I noticed underneath there was a undergrowth coming up, trees again, trees that were flexible, young trees that had life in them, the undergrowth, what we call today, maybe, the underdog, the fellow that's been kicked out of the big church because he hollered "Amen" when the preacher was preaching, and maybe something like that. But anyhow, it's some of the life, or the teachings from the old beginning, from the Methodist, Lutheran, and the Pentecostals, and so forth, as they used to be.

L-29 And so I noticed when the winds fell, the old tree moaned, but the little tree had a revival. It just jumped and went round and round and round and round and flashed around, shouting and praising the Lord. And I thought, "Well, there's one thing we might say; it may not have the education that the old one's got; it may be green; but it's flexible. So that's the--what God was doing." And I noticed in an experience with God, how God likes to shake His trees, loosen them up. And every time a tree moves and shakes, it pulls the roots and makes them loose so they can grow down and get a better hold.

L-30 Now, what the Lutheran left, has the Methodist eaten; what the Methodist left, the Baptist eaten; what the Baptist left, the Presbyterians eaten; what the Presbyterians left, the Nazarenes eaten; what the Nazarenes left, the Pentecostals eaten. "But I will restore," saith the Lord. "I will restore." Then God in His great move of the Spirit is coming to restore.


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