<TITLE>20. Par 78-81</TITLE>L-78 "God, let the Pentecostal church live," is my prayer. Let Him bring us into a place. I wished He'd do it right here tonight. I wished He'd take this group right in here tonight and adopt us, adopt us as His sons and daughters. We're borned His sons and daughters, but let Him adopt us as sons and daughters. What a powerful meeting this would turn out to be. How God would set gifts in this church right here tonight that would... Why, by this time day after tomorrow night, there's something--everybody around here would know something was going on over at this schoolhouse here. It certainly would. They would know it, because that the Spirit of God was living among the people.
Oh, how I want to do that. Don't you want that, every one of you? Don't be angry with me by just getting so rude with it. But as I've always said, my brother here says he's a carpenter, if you don't drive a nail down hard it won't hold. It'll shake right loose. So, I hope this don't shake loose. I hope it stays right there, right there. And you hold right on to it with both hands.

L-79 It reminds me, years ago I used to go up in Colorado in the early seasons to hunt. And I like to hunt elk and deer. And I'd take my vacation. And one day, I seen a scene up there that I've never forgotten. I was... Been several years ago, I was up on the rim behind the Continental Divide. And there's what they call the Troublesome River. I used to ranch in there in the--at the east and west fork forms of Troublesome River, and Hereford Association grazes the valley. If you can raise a ton of hay, you can put a cow on the pasture. And each ranch is cut up with so many tons of hay, and you (I guess that's the same way you have it here in Oregon)--you put your cow in the pasture.
And I used to go up there at the round-up time, when they was taking the spring cattle and drive them up. And there was a drift fence for dividing for private-owned property to government. And I would set there, my leg across the horn of the saddle, and watch the ranger when he was standing there, watching those cattle go through.

L-80 Now, ours was a tripod, and Mr. Grimes up there was a diamond bar. And, oh, they had twenty or thirty different ranchers had run their cattle through.
Now, I noticed that rancher never did pay much attention to what brand was on the cow. You know what he looked at it? He looked for the blood tag in the ear. See? The genuine Hereford or he couldn't go on that pasture.
And I think that's the way God's going to do at the day of judgment. He's not going to care whether you belong to the--to the Assemblies, or to the Church of God, or to whatever you belong to. He's going to look for that Blood tag, brother. And if that's on there, you'll go in. If not, I don't care what brand you're wearing, you'll be turned down. That's all.

L-81 So, one day up, way up in the mountain, it had--the old rancher I were very good friends, good hunter. And he'd took a pack horse and went over on the west fork. And I was down on the east fork, what we call Corral Peaks. And it hadn't snowed yet, and, or enough to stay on. It was early. And the snowstorms hadn't come, so the animals were up high.
And I tied my horse and got a day's journey up around close to timberline. And so, it come up, one of those autumn, October storms. And then maybe it'll rain just as hard as it can rain, and then sleet, then snow, then the sun come out, and then rain again. (You know how it is in the fall.) And it come a storm. And I was way up high, timberline. And that too dry to find tracks.


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