<TITLE>25. Par 79-82</TITLE>L-79 Now, don't Protestants laugh, 'cause pot can't call kettle black. What do we do? We get up, and walk up to the platform, and take the hand of the preacher, and shake hands with the preacher, and they put our name on the book, make a confession, say, "We believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God." Every devil in hell believes the same thing and publicly confess it. That's right. Put your name in the book; that's the way we got. Why do I condemn it? Because it's not lined up with the Word of God. That's right.
"They were all in one place and one accord, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind." Not a priest coming up, or a minister coming up, but a sound as a rushing mighty wind coming from heaven. "And it filled all the house where they were setting." There you are. There's the baptism of the Holy Ghost. They begin screaming, and shouting, and--and speaking with jabbering lips and other tongues, till the--even when they run outside screaming and going on and acting like...
The religious people of that day said, "These men are drunk, all full of new wine," the women and all.

L-80 And listen, my sister, if God required the virgin Mary to have such an experience like that before she come into heaven, how are you going in without the same thing? Virgin Mary was with them. Think that over just a little bit. We're lining up with the Word. That's exactly right. Is it true? Certainly it is.
Then when they were all noised abroad, and they were speaking every man to... This group maybe was Italians, and here's a--and here was another man, here was a Galilean speaking Italian language to this bunch of Italian, was telling them of the resurrection. They said, "Why do we hear in our own tongue, the great works of God? How do we hear every man in our own tongue wherein we were born? Aren't they Galileans, and how do we hear them in our own language?" They said, "This puzzles me." It was the great works of God going on.

L-81 Now, not like in some of our modern meetings, a bunch of carrying on, where there was no, nothing could be understood, but they heard them in their own language wherein they were born. See? Notice, every man in his own language wherein he was born... They were listening. They said, "Isn't this marvelous?" See?
And other mocked and said, "Hah! Look at them. They're just so drunk; they don't even know what they're doing." They were reeling and staggering like drunk men under the mighty impact of the mighty God. The great unction, which means in the Greek word "dynamite" was in their soul, that had blowed out the roots of carnality, and the Holy Spirit had settled in their heart. There they was. And others begin mocking.

L-82 But Peter, kinda coming to himself a little, he jumped up on a soap box stump, whatever it was, and he said, "Ye men of Galilee, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you, and hearken to my words (Listen to me a minute. Give me an audience.): these are not drunk as you suppose, seeing it's just the third hour of the day." Saloons wasn't even open yet. See? "This is just the third hour of the day." He said, "But this is that..." Amen. "This is that." If this ain't that, I'll keep this till that comes. Said, "This is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel."
Was Peter a right kind of a preacher? Absolutely. Where did he go to, some theology or some great something another that some man had made up? No, sir. He went straight to the Word like Micaiah did. "'This is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel; "It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.' This is that," he said. Now, there's the point. That's it. This is that God has spoken. God has said it. God has confirmed it. And the people are laughing at and making fun of it.


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