<TITLE>11. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 Same was the days of Noah--or Moses. Moses came down, and he tore up their traditions and brought them to a living faith in a living God, and led them from victory to victory with signs and wonders. It stumped the unbelievers. "Who is this? Who is that man? Where's he born at? We thought he was an Egyptian. Here all at once, he must be some illegitimate child somewhere. Who is he that comes in this Name?"
It's always been that way. In the days of Jesus, they said, "Who is He? He has no education. We have no schools, no record of His schooling. We have no denomination that He belongs to. Who is He? Only thing we ever knowed, there's some crazy man out here, wild man by the name of John the Baptist, hair sticking out all over his face and half naked, with a piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, declared His coming. He... And He was born a illegitimate birth. His mother was to be mother with Him before Joseph ever married His mother. Who is It?" That's the only record they had of Him. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
That's all they know about the church today, some bunch of post-hole diggers or something, no record at all. Record's not kept on earthly books; it's Divinely protected in heaven. "Who is this? This is a drunkard; this was So-and-so." Tha... That's right. But now he's a son of God. He's been transformed. "Who is He? Who is this that comes in the Name of the Lord?"

L-41 When the Holy Ghost come today, It brings the same decisions. Each one of us are responsible for our decision. We must make it. It's here by us. It's here with us. There's no way around it any more. There's nothing we can do about it. We have to reject It or receive It.
The same Life that was in Christ Jesus is in the Church today. It's performing the same works. It's doing the same miracles. It's doing everything that He did. It's healing the sick, raising the dead, cleansing the lepers, casting out devils, preaching the Gospel; the poor's receiving It. Blessed is he who is not offended.
"Go show John," He said, "these things that are done." John, in the prison his eagle eye had filmed over. His prophetic eye couldn't see like it once seen. But then, it could see when He said, "The lame walk; the blind see; the deaf hear. And blessed is he who is not offended in--in what I do. And if I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. And if I do the works of My Father... If you can't believe Me, believe the works."

L-42 Now, that was His Message. That's what He said, that it must be done. That's what we've got to do, is to make a decision. What will we do with It? It's here. Who is It? What is It? It's a promise of God by His Word that He'd do it. God promised He would do it, and we see it being done.
Now, it's up to us to make a decision: Will we serve? Will we understand? You say, "How will I be able, brother, to understand things that I know nothing about?"
Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Except a man be borned again, he cannot see or understand the Kingdom of heaven." Said, "The wind blows where it list--listeth, and thou cannot tell from whence it come or whither it goes (which a way it come from or where it's going, or where it's been); so is everyone that's borned of the Spirit." You don't know where it comes from, where it's been, or where it's going. But you know one thing, where it's going to take you. Wherever It come from, It'll take you back with It.

L-43 So today, it behooves us to know what we're doing, understand it. Now, if it doesn't bear record of the Word, then it isn't God's Spirit. If it doesn't heal the sick, denies it, then it's not God's Spirit. God is a Healer.


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