<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-14-3 What did the church do? Excommunicate him right quick. "Blessed are ye when they'll put you out of the synagogues and things for My Name sake." For the Bible said, "They'll be heady, high-minded." When? In the last days. Lovers of television, pleasures, more than the lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers. "Now, I'll tell you, don't you go down to that meeting because there's nothing to it": false accusers, the Bible said so. "Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof." What power is that?
The disciples asked... (Just a moment.) The disciples asked this question when they seen that Judas had betrayed Him and everything was at hand; they said, "Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?"
Watch what He said. "It's not for you to know that hour, but go up to the city of Jerusalem, and you shall be endued with power from on high before you can be a witness." A witness has to know something. A witness has to have an experience. And you cannot be a witness of Christ until the Holy Ghost has baptized you.

L-14-6 Jesus would not permit His disciples to preach the Gospel until they received the Holy Ghost, yet they had been honored to walk with Him three and a half years. Though they were holy men, accepted in His sight, but He would not let them go preach until they waited up there and got all the differences out of them, and then the Holy Spirit came.
What the world needs today is that same filling. When the dumping-out comes, it needs a filling. What does that filling do when it come in? Where you have doubts, it brings faith; where you have indifference, it brings love; where you had hatred it brings fellowship; and then when the church of the living God, someday will be united under one great Head, and that will be the--the Head of God. God, into the unity of the Body of Christ will be the Governor and the King and the Lord over the entire church under His control. Then she will be received up.

L-15-2 Today all of the towers of Babel they may build; all of the rockets they may find; all of the socialism and Communism that they may stir up, all the ecclesiastical systems will fail, but in spite of all of it, God will have a church united under His King, under His Kingship by the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. In My Name they shall cast out devils; speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents or should drink any deadly thing, it would not harm them. They'll lay hands on the sick; they shall recover." Great signs and wonders... "The works that I do shall they do also. Even more than this shall they do, for I'm going to the Father. A little while, the world will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me for I'll be with you." What? Dump out, empty up. "Then I'll be in you to the end of the world," the consummation. Certainly, "I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world."

L-15-4 When that Spirit is in there, It takes hold of God's eternal Word, and It calls everything contrary to it as though it wasn't. No matter what it--takes place, what the world says, what anything else says... If God has made the promise, the man that's endued with that Spirit, will hold onto that promise of God, 'cause there's nothing else in his way.
The church is pure. The church is purged by the Holy Spirit; their conscience is seared of doubt, and unbelief is taken away. And when they hear God's Word say a certain thing, they believe it. Oh, they hold onto it. They just don't move from it.


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