<TITLE>19. Par 179-184</TITLE>L-179 And there's thousands and thousands that call themselves Pentecost don't even know what the first message of Pentecost is. Before you can ever get started right, you got to get on the right foundation. You got to get on the Pentecostal foundation. What is the Pentecostal foundation?
When the inauguration of church was given on the day of Pentecost, when they seen them speaking in tongues, and the virgin Mary out there acting like she was drunk, and all the rest of them staggering around like that, they said, "What? What's this? Are these all drunk?"
Peter said, "These are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it's the third hour of the day. This is that which was spoken of back on the--on the blueprint, back there on the road map. This is that which the road map said. Joel said we'd come to this place; we'd come to this junction, 'it shall come to pass in the last days (the last two days, the last two thousand years), saith God, I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and upon My handsmaids and maid servants; your young man will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. I'll show wonders and signs in the heavens above, things like that.'"
They said, "What can we do to get this?"
What kind of a foundation you going to lay, Peter? You got the keys to heaven. He said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the same Holy Ghost. The promise is to every generation that'll follow afterwards, to your children, and them that's far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call." There's the foundation.

L-183 See, they--they'll come and give their--their... They'll go to ch--they'll go to school. Boys will go to school to learn to be a minister (Which is all right, nothing against that.)--to learn to be a minister; but you can't learn to be a minister. Minister's gift is a gift from God. Them apostles were smart and highly as educated as they could be, Jesus still... He... they wasn't, but He still wouldn't let them preach until they received the Holy Ghost. And when they got the Holy Ghost... Now, if you go to a seminary, and the experience that they got on Pentecost comes on you. Amen. But if you just come out through intellectual conceptions, and, well, a master of Greek and a master of--of art, and all these different things, a--a Bachelor's Degree, and all these other things. If you come out with those degrees, you're just giving your strength of your education. You want to give your heart to God. God wants your heart. Yes, sir. He give his strength, not his heart. Yes, sir.

L-184 God can only use what we give to Him. Now, there's a lot of you will say, "I'll give fifteen minutes on Sunday morning if the brothe... If you preach any longer than that, I'll just got to get up and go home." Well, you got fifteen minutes on Sunday morning. That's what you give to God. Someone said, "I can maybe suffer a half hour. I don't know how I can do it." Well, see, that's what you get, fifteen minutes, a half hour. See?
What can you give? God will receive what you'll give, but God wants all of you. He wants every bit of you. He wants all. He wants everything you are. He wants your life. He wants your testimony. He wants every minute you live. He wants you to live right, act right, talk right, do right. He wants everything perfectly surrendered to Him, that He can lead you, and guide you, and put you into places where He wants you to go, led of the Spirit.


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