<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 Well, Pentecost... I've never... I've been... I was a Baptist minister, you know. I'm just as much Baptist as I ever was. Pentecost is not a denomination; Pentecost is an experience. It's an experience that Methodist, Baptist, Catholic... Anybody that wants to receive It is welcome to come and receive It. It's an experience, and you cannot organize an experience. It's a--it's a--something that God has done to the human being. See? And He will do it to any one, no matter what church you belong to.
Now, in the... Now, of course, we have fellowships and organizations; that's exactly fine. 'Cause those brethren congregate together and--and make their organization, which is just exactly right. Sure. But I mean, we... You can't say, "You have to come to the Pentecostal church before you get the experience." You can get it out in the field if you want it, up there in the woods, down on the street corner. Wherever it is, whatever church you're in, if you're still hungering and thirsting for Christ, Christ is here to fill you with the Fulness of His power of His Spirit. That's right. No matter where you are or what you church you belong to, it's for you.

L-26 Now, if He is the same, He's not just halfway the same or two-thirds the way the same; He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, His Word said, "A little while and the world (which the Greek word there 'kosmos' which means 'the world order,') will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (the church); for I (And 'I' is a personal pronoun.), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world."
See what His death, burial, and resurrection was? Was to clean and sanctify a Church, set it aside, and fill it with His power to continue the same works that He did, making Him the same yesterday, today, and forever to continue on and on.

L-27 Now, the only way that we'll ever be able to draw from this text the thing that we want to say, is to find out what He was yesterday. Then that will be what He will be today, and what He will be forever. What type of a Person was He?
As we see the day approaching, it makes me just shiver to look out upon the streets as I pass trough the cities and see and read the newspapers, and hear the broadcasts and so forth of sin abounding. And the day of drawing nearer and nearer all the time of the coming of the Lord. But you can't do nothing about it, because God said it would be just that way. I can speak a voice against wrong; it's our duties to do that. You and I are supposed to speak against the wrong, the evil. We'll never be able to conquer it and stop it. It's just those who has an ear to hear that will hear it. Whoever... "All the Father has given Me will come to Me. My sheep hear My voice."

L-28 Now, then as we see this day appearing and see God sending great revivals across the country: you Baptists, a Billy Graham; you Methodists, a Jack Shuler; you Pentecostals, an Oral Roberts. Why, what God has done: Great signs, wonders, and miracles has taken place throughout the nations everywhere and continually the nation wades on into sin. Do you believe that to be the truth? Why, it's right before our eyes. There's no way of... Continually getting worse all the time.
It reminds me of a little story, a little thing that happened rather in Louisville, Kentucky, about six months ago. There was a lady that had her little baby, and she was in a--one of those five and ten cent stores in Louisville. And they begin to notice the little sister.


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