<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 But the sad part of it was, friends, they were afraid; they thought it was spooks. And that's the same thing's happened to the church today. They're scared of the only hope that can save them, the only hope that can help them. They're afraid. And I believe if Jesus could come to this meeting tonight and appear in a physical form, in a body, He would say the same things that He said there. "Be not afraid, it is I. Be of a good cheer."
I believe that He's here now. I believe that His Holy Spirit is here, because It does the same things that He does. It produces the same kind of fruit that He produced. Don't be suspicious any more. You only hinder the other believers. Get in one accord; say, "God, we thank You for sending the Holy Ghost to us. And we believe it. And it's You, and we accept You. We don't think it's spiritualism or some spook. We believe it's You, Lord, because the Scripture said so. And You promised it, and we're here to receive it."

L-29 And when we pray for you tonight, when not only I pray for you, but these group of ministers here, these here, all around the place. We're not just one praying. We're all praying.
If I was sick out there, coming into this line, I'd want you to pray for me, every one of you. And I'd certainly... If I had my baby out there, if I had my wife coming in that prayer line, I want every one of you to be dead sincere about it.
And if you were standing here to pray for my father, or my mother, or my sister, or brother, or loved ones, I'd want you to be sincere, brother. And I want to be sincere too. And I'm not telling you anything but what's Scripture.

L-30 Christ has already healed every one of you. You've been healed for nineteen hundred years, since He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. And if He was standing here tonight in a corporal body... That body is setting at the right hand of God Almighty. When It comes back, time shall be no more. There'll be a rapture, and the Church will go up to meet Him and be with Him. We'll meet the Lord in the air when He comes back.
His Coming will be as the lightning shineth from the east even into the west, so shall His Coming be. And every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess Him. But His Holy Spirit is here.
Since the days of Luther they lived under justification. The days of Wesley they come a little higher. The church become in the minority under sanctification. Then come the Pentecostal move, which was the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or the restoration of the gifts. Now, we're going just in above that to the capstone. The Church has got to be like... The Spirit in the church and the Spirit that's in Him has to be the same.

L-31 When God confirmed the covenant with Abraham, did you notice what He did, killed those animals and put the doves and so forth in there and they made a covenant? What is a covenant? In America we say, "Let's make a covenant."
All right, we'll have a little lunch. We'll shake hands and say, "We'll agree." That's a covenant. Over in Japan, when you make a covenant they throw salt on one another. That's a covenant.
In the orients, in the time of Abraham when they made a covenant they killed a beast, like Abraham did, divided the--the ram and so forth, and the she goat, or whatever he divided there, three animals and laid them apart. And then, they wrote out their covenant on a piece of paper, stood in between these two, and made a vow one to another: if they broke this covenant, let their bodies be like that dead animal.
And they tore the covenant apart, like this. One took one piece of paper, one the other. To confirm this covenant both pieces had to come and dovetail the same. You couldn't copy it if you had to. There'd be no way of doing it. You had to be the same thing.


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