<TITLE>11. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Now, you can shout a little bit at church, and you go out on the street, and somebody say, "You know you're a holy roller?" Oh, it chafes, real bad.
Somebody said, "Well, look. Why, I seen you down the other night shouting till your hair fell down."
"Well, John, I suppose if that's the way you're going to do it, we might as well get away from that group." It's chafing. See? But when the Mainspring is in there, it lines it with love. And the yoke is easy, and you can bear anything.
They call you a holy-roller, call you a fanatic, anything they want to, the yoke is so easy till you can lay it up on your shoulders. When you're yoked up with the Mainspring, and it's not you any more; it's Him that's a ticking it off. It's so easy, just like Samson with the brazen gates of Gaza. He just packed them away.
And when somebody calls you a holy-roller, or makes fun of you, you just pack the old burden right up to a certain mountain called Calvary and pray for them. Amen. That's when love comes. Love, that's what the world is a dying for is love. Now, God wanted to show... The apostles, rather, wanted to show us what God's power was. Watch what His power was?

L-39 He takes us over to the stillborn body of the Lord Jesus; dead, nails through the hands, the pale cheeks, who's laying in the grave. A Roman seal over the top of the great big stone that taken many men to roll it up there...
There He laid. The Roman centurion said He's dead. The guard said He's dead. They signed His death, and everything announced Him dead. They took Him and laid Him there for three days and nights. But early one morning... God wants to show His power.
I can see a bunch of soldiers in a run like a rabbit with a hound after them, just as hard as they can go. While standing by the grave, stands an Angel that just took His finger and pushed back the stone. I can see that dead form of face with paleness, no blood, where the spear embalmed Him... I can see the very blush of health in His cheeks. I can see Him standing there hollering, "All hail and all power."

L-40 Yes, I can see Him a few days later addressing His apostles to go into all the world and to preach the Gospel to every creature, "And these signs shall follow them until I come. The works that I do, shall you, also," and so forth.
Watch. I begin to notice, under His feet, there's coming light. He begins to lift up. What is it? He breaks, and defies the law of gravitation. That's power. Why was it? He was the center of gravitation. He begins to be lifted up. "And if I--if I go away, I'll come again to receive you unto Myself." There's God's power. There's breaking gravitation.
You know. Let's take a little trip just a moment, if you want to see God's power, and I ask you to be real reverent a minute before closing.

L-41 May you thoroughly understand that it isn't church; it isn't intellectuals; isn't knowing the Bible. It isn't any of these things. It's God's love, the Holy Spirit in the middle of that spirit, that you've quit drinking, and quit smoking, and quit lying. Then God's Holy Spirit in that spirit begins to make it work just exactly right. Then love, then--then you're on the mountain top all the time whether things are coming right, or going right. You still got the victory. That's it.
Live or die... Why, when they was going to cut Paul's head off, he said, "I fought a good fight, finished the course, kept the faith: Henceforth there's laid up for me a crown of righteous, Lord the righteous Judge will give me at that day, not only me, but all that love His appearing."


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