<TITLE>08. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 Now, remember no matter how much of a child it was, if that child was disobedient, it was a regular renegade, it never did have any inheritance. And you talking about the gifts being sent back to the church. Where could God place His gifts? Do you think God would put His holy oil in an unclean vessel? Certainly not.
And that's what's the matter with church tonight. That's the reason you got so much make belief, and isms, and sensations. You're trying to adopt some sensations for the real thing. Why take a--a substitute, when the Pentecostal skies are full of the real? It's the truth. You know that's true.

L-30 But the Father has to hear that from the Tutor, the Holy Spirit. "Oh, they wouldn't listen to Me." They listen to the man that said, 'The days of miracles is past.' They listen to the man that said, 'Oh, you just join the church. It'll be all right. We're a great denomination that's lived for years.'" And the Holy Spirit trying to get His message to you all the time.
"I don't have to listen to them little nitwit preachers. I'll do what I want to." Go right ahead. That shows what's in you. No...
A fellow said to me sometime ago, said, "I don't care what you say, what anything says; I don't believe in Divine healing."
I said, "Of course not. It wasn't sent for unbelievers. It was only sent to those who believe. It's believers that receive it, not unbelievers. It wasn't meant for them. It was sent to condemn them. Remember, the same waters that drowned the world, saved Noah." Right.
And the same Holy Spirit, and the same old fashion Gospel that will take the church home someday in the rapture, will condemn and bring judgment to the unbeliever. That's exactly right. There we stand. God in His mercy...

L-31 Now, what if the picture changes. And the son is a correct son. How he likes to be about the father's business. How he loves to do the things that the father likes for him to do. Oh, how the Ho--the tutor would come to the father and say, "Sir, oh, I bring you great news. Your boy, he's... (Excuse the expression in my typing), but he's just a chip off the old block. (We would say.) He's just like his daddy."
Well, that's the way the Holy Spirit wants to bring it when you believe all of God's Word, when you accept the whole full Gospel, when you believe in everything God wrote it's the truth. God wants you to believe it that way.
Then how the father must swell his chest out, say, "Yes, that's my boy." And what happened then? Later on, there come a time when that father adopted that child into the family. Or to you clergymen there, the placing of a son is what I'm speaking of. He adopted his own child or placed him positionally in his family. Now, he was just a boy to begin with. He--he... They had to find out what his character was.
That's what God has been trying to do when He rained the Holy Ghost down on you all about forty years ago, when you had the old days, when you had prayer meetings all night long, when you wept, and cried, and prayed, and agonized for sinners. And today you have to beg them to come to the altar to pray with a penitent sinner. What happened?


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