<TITLE>06. Par 30-36</TITLE>L-30 Now, apply that to Pentecost, just once. See? Friends, God's my Judge; the Holy Spirit did that. Now, let's apply that back to Pentecost for our meaning. The Holy Spirit wouldn't do anything just--just to say He did it; it's got to be a cause and a reason. See?
Now, on the day... "How hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Are not all these speaking Galileans?" How did they know they were Galileans, if they wasn't speaking Galilean? They all dressed alike. How did they know they were Galileans? "Are not all these that's speaking Galileans? And how do we hear, every man, in our own tongue, wherein we were born?"
And then up gets another man, a Galilean, Peter, and begin to preach to them. And somehow another in that multitude of people, three thousand souls understood him, and came, and was converted, and gave their lives to Christ.

L-33 Now, listen. Let me just take you--one more Scripture. Please. Let us go over to the great St. Paul. And then, we'll read the 12th chapter of I Corinthians, and then drop into the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, when Paul talking about, "If the ears will say to the nose, 'I have no need of you,'" and so forth, the members of the body. Then in the 13th--13th chapter, listen what he says now.
Now, we know that there's two different kinds of tongues mentioned in the Bible. One of them is a language that--that's--that's a dialect of the earth; now, the other is a unknown tongue.

L-35 Now, many of my most precious people, I've told you I'm Pentecost. Now, most of my people believe that--that when they receive the Holy Ghost they just get up and speak in an unknown tongue. That's exactly contrary to the Scripture--then the people don't know what they're saying. But on the day of Pentecost, every one knew what they were saying; that was a going forth to every nation. See? Jesus said the Gospel must be preached to all the world, beginning at Jerusalem. There's where it had to be that way.
Now, notice. Paul said that one tongue, that if you spoke in it, the unknown tongue which is the gift of tongues, unless it be by interpretation or by revelation, that it wouldn't profit much. And then, we find out that in the 13th chapter, he said, "Though I speak with tongues of men (That's dialects of the earth.) or of Angels--though I speak with tongues of men or of Angels and have not charity, I'm nothing." So you could speak with both genuine tongues of men and Angels, and still you haven't got the Holy Ghost.

L-36 Did not we just have it in Hebrews 6? The rain fell upon the wheat and the weeds. Didn't Jesus say, "The rain comes on the just and the unjust"? See? The same rain that makes the wheat grow is the same rain that makes the... grow... But by the fruit of that you know it. And the first fruit of the Spirit is love. What Paul said: "If I have--if I have all--can speak in all kinds of tongues and have not love, long suffering, gentleness, faith, patience, and so forth, it profit me nothing." See?
And then, notice about gifts. You say, "Oh, there's a great man of God; oh, he performs miracles." That still don't make him right. Yeah.
"Though I have a gift of miracles," Paul said in I Corinthians, something on that order, "Though I have faith that I can move mountains and not have that fruits of the Spirit, love, I'm still nothing" (See?), 'cause faith will do anything. That's why I always say, "You're not healed by the merits of your salvation; you're healed by the merits of your faith." "If thou canst believe."


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