<TITLE>09. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Here sometime ago, a minister said to me, he said, "When Mussolini was making his--holding this conference in time of the second world war when all the world, everybody, was concerned... Some people fussing because they didn't have sugar in their coffee, enough sugar, and men dying on the field. We're an ungrateful people. And he said he was walking the floor; he didn't know what to do. Watching and listening at this 'cast that Mussolini was making, how he was going to invade and so forth, such things that he was talking on. And said somebody knocked at the door. And he went to the door and said, "A modern beatnik, standing there with the hair hanging down his neck and whiskers on his face, and said, "I want you to go downtown, help me to sell my poetry. Nobody wants to talk about it."
Said, "Come in my man, and set down a minute. I'm so interested. Here, there's a conference going on, and I'm waiting to hear what the outcome was going be, because it--it means much to our nation and our young boys who will have to die on the field." Said, "I'm interested to hear what the outcome of this conference will be."
And that beatnik run between him and the radio and kept saying, "But my--my--my poetry's more important." Oh, my. He just took him by the arm and led him to the door.

L-32 When we're waiting on a conference... Tonight, we should be waiting on the conference: God to decide what's going to happen in Tifton, tonight. Who's going to believe the report? What's going to take place in the next two or three days at Tifton?
While these people went up to the upper room, one hundred and twenty, with Mary, and Simon Peter, and rest of them, went up into an upper room, a little stairway leading on the outside of the temple, to an old storage room where a little grease lamps was burning, for they had been commanded by the Lord Jesus, "Wait ye in the city of Jerusalem, until your endued with power from on high. I'm going up into glory. And we'll hold a conference, and I'll tell you then, how the church has got to be run."
And while they were gathered in one place and one accord, wondering what kind of a commission they would have, to go and commission to all the world that all peoples must have this Christian church, and the fellowship that it would create... While they were assembled in a little place no bigger than this here, about a hundred and twenty people, all of a sudden there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were setting. The conference had been held; the decision had been made.

L-33 Brother, sister, don't misunderstand me. That's the--the exact way that the Christian church has to be held, if it's a Christian church. God's conference decided, and the Holy Ghost come on the day of Pentecost, and so staggered those people with the power of God, until they staggered like drunk men and women. That's the results of the conference.
After they had been filled with so much power and so much joy, Peter standing up in the midst of them said, "These are not drunk as you suppose, seeing it's just the third hour of the day, but," he said, "this is Scriptural. This is that which was spoke of by the prophet Joel." (I've often made this statement: If this isn't that, I'll just keep this till that comes.) "This is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel, And it'll come to pass in the last days," saith God, "I'll pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Upon My handsmaids and maidservant, I'll pour out of My Spirit... And I'll show signs in the heaven above and in the earth below... Pillars of smoke and vapor."


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