<TITLE>10. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Christ wasn't to die and stay dead. He died but He rose again. He's as--as--as much alive tonight as He was when He walked in Galilee. He's just the same God. He's here in the form of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Christ come back in the form of the Holy Ghost to... And the death of Christ, the Blood of Christ sanctified the unclean and cleansed them through grace, that He might come, and live in the church, and manifest Himself, pour forth His own works, prove to the people that He still lives.
That's the--that's the real Christian principle, is the resurrection. Christianity's based upon the resurrection, not replacement. If I dropped this handkerchief on the floor and picked up another one and put in its place, that's replacement. Christianity is resurrection. The same Jesus that went down, the same Jesus, went up. The same Jesus went up, the same God came down in the church. The same signs that followed back there is the same signs that follows the church.

L-30 Being the Son of God He ought to know how to set a church in order. He said, "These signs will follow them that believe," these signs.
We say, "Well, he's a good man. He paid his tithes." That's good. Alms and mints you should've done, all these things, but not let this other undone. See, we... Them things are good. Go to church; be a good neighbor, a good citizen. That's fine. But there's more to it than that. Like the old brother eating watermelon, they said, "How'd you like that, Mose?"
He said, "That was very good, but there's some more of it." That's the way it is with this. Go to church and join the church is good, but there's some more of it. That is, the more of it is, you must be borned again, and filled with God's Spirit, baptized with the Holy Ghost and set afire. My. That's what the church needs. It needs a call back to God. Churches, denominations, and all, them are fine. That's good, but there's more of it. There's more than church, more than denominations, more than putting your name on the book, more than being baptized with water. Those things are good, but there's more of it. The more of it is Christ: "Christ in you, the hope of glory," Christ in the heart that changes you, makes you a different person, a new creation.

L-31 It reminds me of the mother and father, or foster father, Joseph, and Mary, the virgin. When they had went up to the Pentecostal feast at Jerusalem, they took their precious Son, the Lord Jesus. And I guess they got so took up among the people, talking and doing different things that--the regular routines, till they went three day's journey before they ever missed Him. I think the church has got caught up in that kind of a condition too. More than a three day's journey, it's got about two thousand year's journey, and now in the hour of crisis, you begin to wonder, "Where's He at?"
You know what they did? Just what the church is doing: went back to look for Him among their kindred. Their kindred come off the same way they did. You don't find Him among your kinfolks. You don't find Him there. They went among all their kin, looking around, asking for Him. They couldn't find Him.

L-32 In this hour of crisis when communism is taking the world, when Russia, with their--all their free literature, is just having a revival that's sweeping the earth with communism, then we wonder where is that great God of--of--of heaven? Where is the Jehovah of history? Where is that God that opened the Red Sea? Where is that God could tell Nathanael, "I saw you when you were under the tree"? Where is the God that could open the blinded eyes? Where is the God that could speak and the earth would tremble? Where is that God?
You'll never find Him among your kinfolks. We go back to the Methodists, the Methodists to the Baptists, the Baptists to the Presbyterian, to the Lutheran, to the Catholic, and all around; we still don't find Him. Go to the Baptist church; that's my church and where I was ordained in, you don't find Him. You find fine people. But where is Christ?


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