<TITLE>15. Par 133-144</TITLE>L-133 "For where there is tongues, they shall cease; where is prophecies, it shall fail; where there is all these other things, will fail. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part will be done away with." See, that "perfect." What is perfect? Love. What is love? God. "Let us lay aside all these little dead works and ordinance, and go on to perfection." You see it? We're perfected through Christ. How do we get into It? By Holy Spirit baptism.

L-134 "All right, what happens?" You've passed from death unto Life.

L-135 "Well, do I shake, jump, do it?" You, you won't have to do nothing. You've already done it, God brought you from death unto Life, and you're alive. Then your fruits of your life show it.

L-136   Lot of you Methodists and Nazarenes shouted just as hard as you could shout, steal corn out of a man's patch, that's right, do everything that could be.

L-137 A lot of you Pentecostals spoke in tongues, like pouring peas on a cowhide, sure, went right out and run away with the next man's wife, done all kinds of things. That's not It, brother.

L-138 Don't try to have any sensation or anything to take the place of the Holy Spirit. When the new Birth is come, you are changed. You don't have to do anything to prove it. Your life proves it, as you walk. You're love, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, patience. That's what you are, and the whole world sees the reflection of Jesus Christ in you.

L-139   Now, speaking in tongues, shouting in there, that's just attributes that follow this kind of a Life.
And you can take, impersonate these attributes, and never have that Life. We see it. How many knows that that's true? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure, you do. Surely, certainly you do. My! You see it all around you.

L-140 So, there's nothing you can say is the evidence of the Holy Ghost, unless it's your life that you live. Now, if you want to speak with tongues, that's perfectly all right if you live the life to back it up. That's right. And if you want to shout, fine, that's good. I shout, too, get so happy sometimes I can't hardly wear a pair of shoes; I'm like to jump out of them. And that's wonderful. I believe it.

L-141 I've seen visions, and the sick healed, the dead raised. When they laying out there and the doctors walk away and say, "They're finished and gone," lay there a couple hours; and the Holy Spirit come right down and show a vision, go down there and raise that person up. I've seen those who are deaf, dumb, and blind, and crippled, walk. That doesn't... That's just attributes.

L-142   Brother, long time ago, before the world was ever had a foundation to it; God through His Eternal grace, He looked down, and by foreknowledge He seen you and I. He knew what age we'd live in. He knew what we would be. Therefore, by election, He chose us before the foundation of the world, to be with Him without spot.

L-143 Now, if He chose us before the foundation of the world to be in Him without spot, and we're born all spotted, and nothing else can... nothing can cleanse us, how we going to be without... how we going to be without spot? "He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not have an end of life, but have Eternal Life; should never perish, but have Eternal Life." Then when we come into Him, by faith, through grace are we saved, by the Holy Spirit calling to us.

L-144   Before there was a body on this earth, your bodies were laying here. It's made out of calcium, potash, moisture, cosmic--cosmic light, and petroleums, and so forth, sixteen elements. And the Holy Spirit begin to brood over the earth, "wooing." And as It did, first thing you know, up come a little Easter flower. Then He brood out some grass, and some birds, and after a while, a man come forth.


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