<TITLE>15. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 John said, "I'm only doing what the Lord told me. I reckon I heard it. I recognized it to be God. I was borned a peculiar birth. I've lived in this wilderness since I was nine years old. He told me to go baptize with water." And He said, "Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending..."
"I never seen it on any of you priests. I never seen anything like that. Never... I never heard no voice speaking out of heaven over you all saying, 'This is My Beloved Son, Whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him.' I--I never heard nothing like that over you. And that's the One that said it, and that's the reason I recognized Him to say He is the Son of God. I'm only acting on what I have heard and I've recognized to be God." Amen.

L-52 Jesus himself, when He was here on earth, He said, "I do that only which the Father shows Me," Saint John 5:19. He said, "Verily verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing except the Father shows Him. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." In other words, He heard the Father speak. He knowed it was the Father. And He went and acted out just exactly what the Father told Him to do. See. You hear; you recognize; then you act.
That's why He went up around--had need go by Samaria; He found that women there. How did He go by Samaria when He was on His road to Jericho? See, why He went by Samaria... why? The Father said, "Go up to Samaria. Set down there. Wait." That's all He knowed to do: set there and wait.
Here come a women up. The Father said, "That's the one I want to talk to. Now, let's speak to her." He went to speaking to her, and finally He found what her trouble was and said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "Don't have any."
Said,"That's right; you got five. And the one you're living with now, is not yours." See. He heard. He knowed it was the Father, and He was acting exactly what God told Him to do. Amen. Mmmm. If we could only do that.

L-53 A hundred and twenty people went in an upper room one time, under a persecution. I can imagine hearing those people come by, say, "You know what? That bunch of holy-rollers is up there for ten days. What're they doing for eating?"
"They're fasting."
"I don't see the grocery boy going up there." Oh, no. They were fasting. They were waiting. And said, "What do you know, they're up there, Why? Why, they--they're--they got the doors all barred. A fellow couldn't get in there."
Go up this little old steps up here at the top of the temple--just about one man at a time can go up to that room. And we get up there, why, you can't get in. So what was... "Just might as well let them stay up there, I guess, and starve to death if they want to."
Why? The carnal mind. Yet they were religious. They were all up there at Pentecost and they were very religious, the Esau bunch.

L-54 But you see, the Jacob bunch was up there waiting, because they had heard God say, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high. After this, the Holy Ghost, is come upon you, then you shall be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world." What? Wait first: go up to Jerusalem and wait there until this promise comes.
"Lord, You called us. Isn't that good enough?"
"Yes, that's all right."
"You give us power to cast out devils. Is that all right?" "Yeah, that's all right, but I want you to go up there and wait." They heard God say it. They recognized that He wasn't some illegitimate person; He was God made flesh among us. And he knowed that was, so they went up to Jerusalem, because God said so. They went up there and waited. They recognized it to be God. And all at once they went into action. You know what the results was. They staggered like drunk men. They spoke in tongues. They... Oh, the awfullest outfit you ever heard in your life till people said, "These men are full of new wine." No... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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