<TITLE>24. Par 76-78</TITLE>L-76 Here's the formula, if you want to know it. All right. The first... When the first church was inaugurated on the day of Pentecost, they were all screaming. And Jesus told them, said, "Don't you preach no more; don't you do nothing." But Luke 24:49 said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high. After this the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:8), after this the Holy Ghost will come upon you: then you shall be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, and Samaria, and uttermost parts of the world."
They went up there, how long to wait, how long? Two days, five days? Until. What happened? They was all in one place and one accord. One accord, they wasn't arguing, "Now, I'm a Sanhedrin. I--I'm a Pharisee." No, it'll never come on a group like that, not a bit, never come. They're just waiting. They were brothers and sisters together, women in there with them. They were all up there for ten days, waiting, waiting, one accord, just reading the Bible, a little, maybe someone stand up and preaching like I've just  done, saying, "The blessings of God has been promised. Now, God said He'd pour out the Holy Ghost. Joel said He would do it. And we're waiting for the Word to be fulfilled."

L-77 Oh, my. So, are you doing that tonight? Waiting for the Word to be fulfilled, how that struck fire to my heart. Waiting in the upper room... "Well, it never happened yesterday. It will today. Or if it don't today, it will tomorrow. We'll stay right here till it's over. We're going to wait. Now, the Word said so, and every spot of Jesus' life was a fulfilling of that Word. He told us to wait here before we went to preach the Gospel, all the way around the world, and that every creature on the earth hear the Gospel. Before we started we were to wait here, we were to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost."
One of them said, "Now, just a minute. There's just a little thought in my mind. Haven't we walked with Him hand to hand?"
"That is right. But He said, 'Yet a little while and the world won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me; for I'll be with you, even in you.' Well, now, that's right. He did say that. Then He's going to be in us. Yes, sir. That's the Word. Stay with It. That settles it. All right."

L-78 Here they come. All of a sudden... Now, here's the way we take it. Not for a joke now. I don't... This is no place for joking. There's been too much Hollywood evangelism today, too much joking and carrying on at the pulpit. Listen. This is a sincere thing. And notice, and a sacred thing. Notice.
What happened? As we listen... If we taken it like today, what if we were taking the Catholic church? Now, we'd have to read Acts 2 like this. "And they were all in one place and one accord, making confessions, and they played--prayed to the blessed saint." It's a high form of spiritualism, of course, you see, 'cause there's nothing can pray to the dead except spiritualists. Right. So then, we was... "They playing to the blessed saints. The priests come in and gave them the holy communion (holy eucharist, which is called in the Greek word), and the people would lick out their tongue and take the holy eucharist, and they would drink the wine." Now, that's the way we go in, take the rights of the Catholic church.


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