<TITLE>05. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 A few nights before, we took the subject. In the garden of Eden, the devil chose the man's head by intellectual. God chose his heart by faith. And if you walk by faith, you have to believe things that you cannot see or even reason with your mind. We cast down reasons. When God says anything, we don't look at it no more intellectually; we let it soak right down into our heart and call anything contrary to it, as though it wasn't. We look at what God said, Who gave the promise.
That's where the world's so tangled today. It's at too much intellectual preaching. Instead of Spirit filled churches worshipping in the Spirit, they're listening to intellectual messages. And you can't reason this out. There's no way at all to do it.

L-20 I was thinking... Wished I had another week here in the Temple, I'd like to get into something of a subject that I have in my heart of the lay--restoring of the true church of God--how what the palmerworm eat, and the caterpillar eaten, and all these different bugs. It's the same bug; it's different forms of its life. And it eat all away. And what they have eaten and made up all these man-made things, God will never restore by them. He's going to grow it right out of the stump. "I will restore, saith the Lord." It won't come out of any creed. It'll come out of God: "I will restore."
These palmerworms, and cankerworms, and so forth, that's eat on God's heritage, has eat it down to a stump. But it will not come through these, or neither will He use them. He will come right from the stump, right up with it. "I will restore, saith the Lord." And He's going to restore a faith in the people.

L-21 The last book before Revelations, in the little book of Jude, said, "I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, and it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you, that you should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints." They'd fallen away from it. And if they'd fell away then, thirty-three years after the death of Christ, how much more have they fallen away tonight?
But God will restore that Church to its former condition. I believe it. "I will restore."

L-22 And then, we've got to get back. And that's why I was teaching on Abraham, to let you know... The greatest thing I find in the church tonight, amongst the people, all the churches... When I say church, I mean all of them. I find two different classes of people. I find fundamental people, who positionally know their position in Christ, but they haven't got any faith for it. Then I find the Pentecostals, who's got a lot of faith and don't know who they are. So then, it's just like a man that--that's got a lot of money in the bank and can't write a check; and the other one can write a check and hasn't got no money in the bank. If you can get them two together... If you could get the faith that's in the Pentecostal in the fundamental people, or get the--the Holy Ghost, I mean to say, that's in the Pentecostal people in the fundamental believers, or get their position, let them... the Pentecostals know their position, just as the fundamental knows it, there'd be something happen.

L-23 But the trouble with the people today, those who have the Holy Spirit, they just... They don't know what to do with It. They blow It all out in steam, instead of making It work for the Lord. They--they shout It out, and praise It out. That's all right, but let's put It to work. Let's make It work for the Lord.
Like Benjamin Franklin, when he caught electricity, he begin to scream, "I got it. I got it." But just to say he had it, could... 'cause he felt it. He had it, but it'll never do no good till he puts it to work. Now look what it does.
And the Holy Spirit will light up the world with the Gospel just like electricity did, if we can put It to work. But you've got to let the Holy Spirit work. People today are... People are entertained.


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