<TITLE>22. Par 205-217</TITLE>L-205 "Here I am, send me," said Isaiah in the temple, when he seen the Cherubims with wings over their faces, over their feet, and flying with wings. And they got a coal of fire and cleansed his mouth; then the Spirit of God come on him. Why can't we? God can't find men like that.
When He hunted for His disciples, "He came to His Own, His Own received Him not." He couldn't find nobody. They was waiting for that. Today the world is waiting for Divine healing. But I don't care how much Divine healing you--you do, still they won't believe you.
Well, right after they turned Jesus down, when the seventy walked away, He even turned to those disciples, said, "You want to go too?"
They said, "Where would we go?" Peter, he said, "You have the Words of Eternal Life." See?

L-210 And He went right out, and there was a man that didn't even have eyeballs in his sockets. And He made some clay and plastered his eyes, told him, "Go wash in the pool Siloam." And, when he did, he come back seeing. Did that change them? Did His popularity rise? No. It went down, down, down. Why? He stayed on the road. He stayed on the road map.
It's the same today. They see signs, wonders, miracles, and everything performed, and they say, "Aw, that, there's nothing to that. It would've happened anyhow." See?
He rose Lazarus from the grave, looked like that would've shook the whole nation. The Bible said He would do it. That was the signs that was to follow. When He stood to the Samaritan woman here and said, "You have five husbands." That ought to have shook the whole world.

L-214 And He stands today in His people, and you've seen it time after time perform the same thing. And they say, "Aw. Uh-huh. Why, I guess that was all right." See, just simply unconcerned, no surrender. Oh, they'll put a little time, go to church once in a while, and something like that. But when it comes to make a surrender, no, they won't do it: won't surrender. They don't want it.
When Jesus called His disciples, what did He have to do? Get the very illiterate type, men and people who couldn't even sign their own name. "Peter, John," the Bible said, "they were ignorant and unlearned." That's who He had to get.
But if the intellectual wouldn't, they wouldn't hear Him then, they won't hear Him now. They got their own course. They're on their own road. And they--they follow that road because they've been instructed that way, because their pastors, their--their bishops, and their cardinals, and--and popes, and whatmore, directed them on that road.

L-217 But the Holy Spirit will bring you back to Pentecost, every time; they did in the Scripture to everybody, and it will in this day to everybody. It'll bring you back to that reality. It'll bring you back to a baptism of power of the Spirit, that'll lead you and will never take one Word off the Bible. It'll stay right in the Bible. Where It says this, it'll follow right on through it. The Holy Spirit will. It brings a reality.
What did He do? He had to get these ignorant fishermen, didn't even have clothes, just something wrapped around them, fish-aprons, and so forth, no clothes; so ignorant they couldn't sign their name: unlearned, no education. But He found somebody. He had to get somebody. But He found men in that kind of a state, that was willing to surrender, that was willing... They had nothing else to hold. They didn't have any churches, any denominations and anything. They were just ignorant fishermen, sheepherders; didn't know how to write, didn't know how to read, nor nothing. But they had nothing to lose, and He got to them, and they surrendered. They said, "Whatever You say, Lord, we'll do it. We'll follow You."


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