<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Now, in the days of Solomon, all gathered around and rallied around that great gift of God that was sent to the church and to the people.
Now, what if America today, would rally around the Gift that's been sent them? What if we would all of the American people, where this great Gift has been poured out in these last days, the Gift of the Holy Ghost...? What if all the ministers, all the laity, all the churches together, would rally around the Holy Ghost, the Gift of God, that's been sent to us to guide us, and direct us, and set us in order? But we got so many bishops, and archbishops, and men.
God intends the Holy Spirit to lead the church. That's our Leader. That's the One that was sent to us, and we're to be dominated by Him and Him alone, that directs us. Then we stay in the Word, level in the Word. The Holy Spirit feeds you Sheep-food. And Sheep-food is the Bible. And it feeds on the Holy Spirit. The soul that's hungering for God, feeds on the Word of God. Now, if we'd all rally around that, it--we wouldn't have to dig one foot under the ground. We wouldn't have to fear any atomic attack, because we'd already be in the safety.

L-23 There wouldn't be any confusion among us. We'd all be rallying around. And nations, Russia... Oh, Russia is just as hungry for it as we are. And Finland, when that little boy was raised from the dead that night, being killed in that automobile accident, as you all know, and... In the books it's printed. And the little boy, I'd seen him two or three years before, in a vision. Wrote, I had the people to write it in their Bibles, that it would come to pass.
When that little boy was raised from the dead that afternoon, that night when I went down to the "Messuhalli," there were thousands of Russians standing there. And them soldiers standing there with that Russian salute, the tears running off their cheeks, said, "We will receive a God like that." Sure. They come to find God, and you give them a bunch of creeds. They want something real that they can take a hold of. I don't blame them.

L-24 That's what started communism: when the church let down and let people feed out of trash cans. A hungry child will eat from a garbage can. The only reason he does, is because he's not invited to a clean table. It's the church's fault. Absolutely, it's the church's fault. God didn't intend such as that. But they find the weakness, and just no more than belonging to a lodge, when you belong to the church. Shame on us. When people come to the church, we ought to have all the spiritual gifts, and the power of God operating that would make them people thirst.
Did not Jesus say, "Ye are the salt of the earth. But if the salt has lost its savour, it's henceforth good for nothing but to be trod under the foot of man."? That's exactly what they've done with it. When the salt lost its contact of strength, when the church lost its power, it becomes no more than any other lodge. It's true.

L-25 But salt is the savour if it contacts, if it's got any strength in it. If you got meat here and salt here, you've got to get them together (It's exactly right.) to save the meat. It's the salt saves if it contacts. But if the salt's lost its strength, you could pour it all over the meat and it would ruin anyhow. That's what's been the matter: people joining church: putting their name on the book, without knowing Christ as their Saviour, without being filled with the Holy Spirit. Men hungering for God, coming into the church and finding nothing, just the bare, a little intellectual talk about some star, moon, or something like that, or who's going to be the next president. Those things are all right, but not in the pulpit. The pulpit is the judgment seat; it's where God's power ought to be preached in His power and His... It's exactly right.


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