<TITLE>17. Par 110-113</TITLE>L-110 Now, after the disciples had been beaten; they had been mocked, made fun of, and everything, they thought it's time to go back together a little while. Let's turn over to--to Acts the 4th chapter and see when they--what happened. Now, this is to you people that's already got It: Acts the 4th chapter.
Now, Peter and John had been beaten, put in prison for healing--having a healing service out at the gate of the church. How many knows that? There was a man laying there kinda lame in his feet; he couldn't walk, been that way for forty years. And Peter passed through, and he said--held out his cup to get something to put in his cup for food. (And Peter showed that he was a Holy Ghost filled preacher; he didn't have any money.) He said--he said, "Silver and gold have I none." See? He wasn't caring about that, but he was a--a heaven-bound creature. Oh, how I wish we had time to lay in that a little while there. You see? He was heaven-bound; he was comforted; he had the Spirit; he had the power; he walked on, said, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, I'll give to you."
110a      No doubt the man said, "What you got, sir?"
"I got faith. I've got something in my heart that started about ten days ago. I was in the upper room up there, and all of a sudden, all the promises that God had made... I've walked with Jesus Christ for three and a half years. I fished with Him, out pulling in the fish; I done these different things. And I seen Him heal the sick. I'd--He kept telling me, 'The Father's in Me; but when I leave, He'll come in you.' So I couldn't understand that. But He said, 'Now, I don't expect you to understand it. You don't understand these things; you just get them.'" I don't understand it yet. And don't tell me you do, because you don't. See? So I can't understand It; I can't explain It; but only thing I know, I got It.

L-111 "Well, well," you just say, "that's not scientifically." Oh, sure it is.
Look at them lights. When Benjamin Franklin caught it, he said, "I got it." He didn't know what he had, but he had it. And I want somebody to tell me tonight what electricity is. They don't know yet what it is, but we got it. Amen. That's right. There's no man knows what electricity is. They can harness it, make it light, make it burn, make it act; but it--it's generated by generators (two pieces running together like that, it produces that), and that's all they know. It'll give light, and it's got power in it.
And that's like the Spirit of God. When you get... One piece is you, and the other Piece is God, and get them running around together like that, it'll do something for you. That's right. It'll give light; It'll give power. You don't know what It is, and never will know what It is, but you know when you got It. That's one thing sure. And It's for you; It's yours. It's the Assurance. That's right. What's that light show? There's assurance it is a light.

L-113 Now, notice this. Now, you don't know what It is. But these fellows said, "Well," they--they said one thing they know, "we know that they're ignorant," some more nuts (You see?) like the little German said he was. See? Said, "They're ignorant and unlearned, but they've been with that fisherman, that carpenter down yonder, called Jesus; I'll tell you; because they're doing the same things He does."
That's what the Holy Ghost is, is Jesus living in a ignorant fisherman, a carpenter, or whatever: ignorant preacher, whatever it is. It's a man that wants to be ignorant to the things of the world and let the--Jesus come into him, the Spirit of God, the Seal, the Comforter. He don't care about prestige; all thing he wants is God.


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