<TITLE>12. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 That first branch that come forth was a Pentecostal branch, filled with Pentecostal power, so impact by the Holy Spirit till they staggered under the impact of the power of God. They went forth and saw visions, performed miracles, opened the eyes of the blind, healed the sick; joy was in the camp. They prayed in one accord, and all of them together, until the building shook where they were assembled together. Show me a church doing that today. Even the Pentecostals getting--so called, is getting so dry, you--why, they have a little ceremonial prayer. What we need is a prayer meeting that'll shake the shingles off the top of the house and bring God back into the church again.
It wasn't so from the beginning. All these creeds, and cold formal ritualistics, and all these different things, it wasn't so from the beginning. Jesus set up a church and said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." That was the beginning. That's what happened in the beginning. If He's was here on earth today He would not endorse our creeds and our things that we're doing. He would say, "It wasn't so from the beginning."

L-38 Jesus said at the beginning, "The works that I do, shall you do also." That's the way it was at the beginning. What kind of a works did He do at the beginning? The same works that He's doing now. What kind of a church did He have at the beginning? A church that was filled with the Spirit, that healed the sick, and prophesied, and great signs and wonders. And it wasn't ashamed of their religion. They shouted and danced under the Spirit like drunk men, and had cloven tongues like fire set upon them. And they done signs and wonders, and exploits followed them. That's the kind it was at the beginning. That's the kind it'll be in the middle. That'll be the kind it'll be at the last.
You say, "My church don't teach that." Well, it wasn't so from the beginning.
You say, "I'm a Methodist." It wasn't so from the beginning.
"I'm a Baptist." It wasn't so from the beginning.
"I'm a Lutheran." It wasn't so from the beginning. They were baptized saints of God with the Holy Ghost. That's what the beginning was: signs and wonders.
You say they don't--"My church don't believe in it." It wasn't so from the beginning. "My church don't believe in seeing visions." It wasn't so from the beginning. "My church says the days of miracles is past." It wasn't so from the beginning. "My church don't believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost." It wasn't so from the beginning.

L-39 I tell you God wants a people that's consecrated by the power of God, that'll surrender their intellectuals and let God come in and take over and give a new birth. That's what He...?... Let's go back to the beginning. If we want to see the sick healed, we want to see signs and wonders of the living Christ, go back to the beginning where we left Him.
We left Him at the Pentecostal feast. Three hundred years after that come the Catholic church. After the Catholic church come, after fifteen hundred years of dark ages, come the Luther reformation. Out of there come the Anglican and so forth, on down, and each one forming creeds, and creeds, and creeds, and creeds, and so forth. And now the world says, "Where is that God that walked and healed?" Amen. Where is that God? Where's He at? What happened to Him? Let me call you Catholic, Protestants, Methodist, Baptists, Presbyterians, go back to where you left Him at. Go back to Pentecost again. Hurry back real quick and find Him there. That's what the church needs tonight, friend. Back to a living faith in a living God with His living Presence ever with us to the end of the world. Do you believe that? Let us bow our heads.


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