<TITLE>13. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 Oh, how I wished I could have just said something. But this man is using his life out for God. He strikes people where would never come to hear me. But here is the reason... I find it in my meeting. Oral Roberts finds them in his meeting. And we'll find them everywhere.
But here's where it's at. They only get emotionally worked up. And they never become converted. They never really become a believer, upon the basis of the Word. They just make a cold, formal confession, and that's about the end of it. And the first little persecution comes along and said, "John, what went with the cigars?"
"Well, I was...?... at the Billy Graham meeting."
"Well, wife, I can't stand it any longer. Get me my John Wilson's." See it? See?
"Liddy, what happened to that make-up? I seen you're letting your hair grow out. I heard you was down to one of the Branham campaigns."
"Well, I just can't belong to this club and live in peace. I'll just get my stuff back and smear my face up." Go ahead, there's one woman in the Bible painted her face to meet man, and God fed her to the dogs. That's right. If you want to be dog-meat for God, go ahead.

L-45 But now just a minute. Listen, I want you to hear something. What happened? They never went far enough. They just might got a new conception of Christ. But look, when you get a new heart, a new spirit, and then God puts the Holy Spirit, His Spirit right in your new spirit, the cross becomes lined with feathers. It doesn't chafe any longer.
They can say about you anything they want to. It won't bother you. Why, my, the burdens that the world casts on you, why you seem to be so strong in the Spirit, and that new spirit in you, and the Holy Spirit took the world life right around towards heaven and the Word of God. Why, you're just like Samson. You pick up the brazen gates of Gaza, and pack them up to a certain hill called Calvary, and pray for that person. Certainly. The cross has got wings on it. It just moves along easy.

L-46 And that's the reason just a little puff blows them out. That's the reason we take in thousands of members a year and the wind blows them out. The first little persecution, they can't stand it. The first little raw place comes it...?... the cross and they throw it off. They haven't lined it yet. See? God lines the cross for you. "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me. My yoke is easy." Sure it is.
Is he just been made up in God's mechanism? His mechanism now, is not linked with some theology or some intellectual feat, but get the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then you begins, the mechanism begins to move you, not you moving it and trying, "Why here's the way I think it ought to be." God said this is the way it should be. It's for the Holy Spirit that moves right in the Word. And you just move right along. It's so easy when you do that. "A new heart will I give them."

L-47 Now, yoke easy... God wanted to show to the disciples and to the world His power. So in Christ, let's take a look at the power of God that ought to be in the church. Which by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body. And that Body is the Body of Christ. Regardless of your denomination, it is the Body of Christ by Holy Spirit baptism. You believe that? It's the only way you can be.
God wants to show the world the resurrection of Christ. There He lays in the grave. He's silent; His body's chalky white. On Easter morning we hear Him holler, "All power is given into My hands." All...?... to listen. And we see gravitation losing its power, as we see light coming between His feet and the earth. Why? He's the center of gravitation. And He lifts up, up, up. It's the power of God lifting Him up, to show to us where the Lord...?... We were...?...
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... like He wanted to have it. He appeared right...?... Oh, what a great thing it is.


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