<TITLE>04. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 And I thought, "How a liar you are." And then I turned just as I was crossing Graham Street; I said, "Satan, you that's talking to my conscious, I'd like to ask you a few things: Who was it that the Hebrew prophets spoke of that would come? Who was the anointed Messiah? What was upon those men who foresaw Him and told His life thousands of years before He got here? Who was it that foretold it just to the letter? And when He come, they said, 'He was numbered with the transgressors,' and He was. 'He was wounded for our transgressions,' and He was. 'He made His grave with the rich, but He would rise up the third day,' and He did. And then He promised the Holy Ghost; and I've got It, so you just might as well get away from It; because it's written in the Word, and every word is true." Then he left. Just give him the Word; that does it. He can't stand that Word, for It's inspired.
Let's start reading tonight in the 7th chapter of the Book of Acts.
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
And he said, Men and brethren, and father, hearken; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwell in Charran,
And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into a land which I'll shew thee.
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaean, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil for four hundred years.
And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, saith God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this country,
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

L-22 Upon this place, we wish to approach the subject (which I think is the outstanding subject of today) of the: "What Is the Holy Spirit?" What is It? And now, the reason I have taken these subject in line like this, you cannot come and receive the Holy Spirit, unless you know what It is. And you cannot receive It (if you know what It is), unless you believe It's given to you and It's for you. And then you cannot know whether you've got It or not, unless you know what results It brings. So if you know what It is, and who It's to, and what action It brings when It comes, then you'll know what you've got when you get It. See? That just would settle it.

L-23 Just like I was talking to our Brother Jeffries today. And he said, "I would like to be at the meeting tonight, but I'll be there tomorrow night." He didn't know the meeting was going on, because we didn't announce it just right here. Some of the... Brother Leo and them wrote to some of our friends and told them out of town. Well, because we didn't have room...
Now, I said, "Brother Jeffries, if you sent me down to turn on one of your oil wells, and I didn't know nothing about it, I'd probably blow it up. I might turn the wrong key or start the wrong motor. I'd have to know how to do it before I did it." And that's the way with receiving the Holy Ghost; you've got to know what you are coming for, and how to receive It, and what It is.


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