<TITLE>04. Par 15-21</TITLE>L-15 Noticing over in Jerusalem not long ago that six-point star of David, the oldest flag in the world, a waving again for the first time for twenty-five hundred years, see the Jews returning and saying, "Where is the Messiah?" All these things are pointing to the end time. And we just simply here in America, instead of having our head in God's Bible studying It, we got our head in a television somewhere, finding out who loved Lucy or some kind of a silly thing like that, and staying home from prayer meeting. And that's the condition that America has got into.

L-16 Our church has become lukewarm, gone after fantastics and every little emotion, and keeping our head from the Word of God. If there ever was a time that we ought to be assembling ourselves together, the Bible said, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, and that much the more when we see the end time approaching." Oh, there should be every hall and every arena throughout the United States and world rented by ministers, and preaching the Gospel, and warning the people of the things to come. We are near the end and how can we set still?

L-17 Wife dear, said to me, said, "Billy, your throat is so raw, and you're preaching yourself to death." Said, "You preach so hard I'm afraid you'll fall in a heart attack sometime."
I said, "I'd rather go in the harness from the platform preaching the Gospel than any other way that I know of in the world." Just as close to glory from right here as it is anywhere...
Preach the Word and be instant and ready and warning the people of the things to come.
We notice that before any great event takes place God always gives His warning. And we find out in our Scripture lesson tonight a great event was just about to take place. And Christ doesn't do things just to be clowning. We know that He was God.

L-18 And a little woman believed it so much till she touched His garment and was healed. He was so full of the Spirit till He turned and recognized who she was and told her what she was healed of.
And we find out also, that a Roman soldier once put a cloth or rag over His eyes and hit Him on the head and said, "If thou be the Son of God, tell us who hit you, you prophesier. Let us know who struck you on the head. You tell us," making fun of Him. He never felt any virtue because he approached in the wrong way.

L-19 But we find here that Jesus taken Peter, James, and John. Now, I would like to look at that just a moment. Watch; them three people are always with Him in miracles. When He raised the daughter of Jairus, He took with Him these three: Peter, James, John. It represents hope, faith, charity. Peter was faith; James, hope; John, charity. And He taken these three, because it's written in their law, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established."

L-20 So they taken Peter, James, and John and went on His way up to what we call Mount Transfiguration. And then when this great event was to take place, which was remembered long years after... Peter said, "When we were in the holy mount..." Not that the mount was holy, it was the holy God that met them on the mount: not the holy mountain, but the holy God.
People today sometimes call the church, "Well, they believe in holiness." It isn't the holiness people. It's the holy God that dwells among the holy people. It isn't holy people; it's a holy God that they are representing on the earth.

L-21 And we find when they got up to the mountain, and these three great gifts, hope, faith, and charity, almost cover the whole sphere of gifts, charity being the greatest, love. And while they went up to the mountain, then God sent down three from heaven to give witness in heaven. Some great event was just about to take place. And I believe tonight that one of the greatest events that the world has ever known is just about to take place. Look at the world in the condition that it's in.


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