<TITLE>19. Par 121-124</TITLE>L-121 Now, watch, they're going to come back, say, "Now we're not a..." Now, you go out there and say, "Well now, Lord, now, wait a minute here. They're just making so much fun of me." Didn't He say they'd do it? "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions."
"Well, you know, my boss told me if--if he caught..." Didn't He say they'd say that?
"Well, you know, they drawed me into court the other day about it..." Didn't He say you'd be brought before kings and rulers for My Name? "Take no thought what you'll say, because it's not you that's speaking. (I seen that happen yesterday.) It's the Holy Spirit that dwells in you; He'll do the speaking." See? Amen. That's right. All right. "Take no thought what you shall say."
122a      Lord--by... Who by thy mouth of thy servant David has said, Why did the heathens rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers... gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
... of a truth, Lord, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel,... gathered together,
For to do whatsoever thou hand and thou counsel has determined before to be done.
Oh, my. I like that. "Lord, they're just doing the very thing that You said they'd do." Why, the Bible said, "In the last days, there'll come scoffers, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness, but denying..." They never went up there and received power, "... after this the Holy Ghost is come upon you..." "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away." That's what the Holy Ghost is. See? What is determined to be done.
122b      ... now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and--and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness we may speak thy word,... (Oh, I like that. Get that old wishbone out and get a real backbone in there. Now, watch here.)... we may speak thy word, By stretching forth thy hand to heal;... (Oh, brother. Demons don't die, but the Holy Ghost don't either. See?)... stretching forth thy hand to heal;... that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. (You see what they was fussing about, don't you? They're doing the same thing today, but it don't do a bit of good.)
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and... spake the word of God with boldness.
My. They got something when they went up there, didn't they? The promise said... That's what the Holy Ghost is, to give you boldness, to give you a comfort, to seal you, give you a sign. Oh, my.

L-124 Listen. (Oh, wish we just had time.) We could go down with Philip to the Samaritans in Acts 8:14 (you all that's putting it down). They had received a great joy; they'd had great healings. But they had been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, but they sent up to Jerusalem to get Peter. He come down and laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost: Acts 8:14.
The Gentiles, there was one by the name of Cornelius. He was a wonderful man, paid tithings, built synagogues for the people, respected God, feared God, a good man, good Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, or something another (See?), a very good man. But one day God said, "He's a good man, so I'm just going to send him to a meeting. I'll have to get my preacher over here to tell him about it." All right, so he saw a vision and said, "Go down to Joppa, and you'll find one down there named Simon, a tanner. And there's one, Simon Peter, in there. Let him come up here; he'll tell you the way, 'cause he's received something."


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