<TITLE>12. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Looky here. The first gift in the line of gifts is wisdom. The second is knowledge. And if you don't have any wisdom, how do you know what to do with knowledge. Seek the best things first: wisdom; and if you hadn't got wisdom, what can you do with knowledge, or speaking with tongues, or these other things? It takes wisdom. It takes God's wisdom. Solomon said, "Call it your mother." Right.
But what did they do, the Pentecostal received the speaking in tongues, and they made a denomination out of it. And they went to, "This is it." Sure they did. And a mixed multitude went with them.
And today what's happened with the Pentecostals? They's two factions of them. One of them is just as cold and formal and stiff and starchy as they can be. And the other's after a big bunch of isms: running oil and blood from their hands, and everything else across the country, and call it evidences of the Holy Ghost; and frogs and lizards and things jumping out of people and putting them in a little alcohol and so forth. Anyone knows that a devil doesn't have a corporal body. And the Blood of Jesus Christ dripped down on a man, it was a corporal body, and Christ is already come, and it's wrong then.
The Bible said, "When Jesus comes, that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess."

L-39 He will be... His coming will be like the Light that cometh from the east even unto the west, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess. We know that that's true.
Then when we see those things happening, when we see those things coming to pass, then we know that there's a mixed multitude that's went up with the people. After while one faction become way over on one side; one become way over on the other side; and there's your mixed multitude. There's your reaction again. There you're coming...

L-40 And when they did like that, they come to the place of Kadesh-barnea. And when they come to Kadesh-barnea, that was the judgment seat, where trials must be settled. Oh, if you could only understand it little church.
Now here's where we want to squeeze just for a moment. Now, listen closely. Kadesh-barnea was the testing time, and every child that comes to God has got to be tested. There's no exceptions at all. God tests and tries every child that comes to Him. Is that right? The Bible said they are. And as we notice now, when those trials come and testings. There's testing times comes for nations.
Now, I say this; I'm not a politician. God runs His own nation. He doesn't run these nations; the devil runs these, every one of them; the Bible says he does. The devil operates every nation.

L-41 Notice, when the testing time comes for the nations, when the testing time come for Israel, she failed. And when she did, God turned her over to Babylon. And as a nation, she failed. And when the testing time come for Rome, she failed. When the testing time come for Greece, it failed. When the testing time come for France, it failed. When the testing time come for Russia, she failed. Listen. And I say this, with the reverent heart to God, "The testing time has come for America, and she's failed."
The Gospel has been preached from east to west, from north to south; they've combed every little place and crack and corner. Great revivals has went forth, Billy Graham's, and Jack Shulers, and Oral Roberts. And they have... Oh, just hundreds of them have combed every little crack and corner.


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