<TITLE>09. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 Now, we find out that He was taking these to bear record of what He was going to do. There's certainly something going to happen when God calls His witnesses together. And He... What He was going to do there, what we call, was the placing of a son.
In the Old Testament, we find out that when a man had a great kingdom and he had a--he had a son borned into his home, then that son, of course, was a son as soon as he was born. But yet he had no inheritance until he was positionally placed in, adopted into the family. They call it adoption. Now, that sounds strange.
But now, here's where the Pentecostal church, to my opinion, got off (or stopped) instead of going on. Now, I am Pentecostal, too. And if I didn't have the Holy Ghost, I wouldn't be standing up here telling you about it. But... And if I didn't love you, I wouldn't be telling you about it.

L-34 But look, when a--when a child was born, in the old orthodox home, well, the father had lots of work to do. So, he... The son was a son as soon as he was born.
Well, that's what the Pentecostal church, as soon as it was borned, or any other church, when it's borned into the Kingdom of God, it becomes sons and daughters of God. But we stopped at that. When the Pentecostal church received the gift of speaking in tongues and interpretation, they stopped at that. That's no place to stop; that's the place to begin. Why, we got untapped resources everywhere. All things are possible to them that believe. Every promise in the Bible belongs to us.
The trouble of it is, we can go to our--our fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God, our Methodists and Baptist brethren. You can tell them about Divine healing, the power of God; they'll refer back to what did Moody say about it, what did somebody else say about it, looking back.

L-35 We can say to the Pentecostal brethren, "Well, what we got back yonder when our forefathers got it fifty years ago..." Don't never look backward; look forward. Keep looking forward. Science don't do that. Science is going to find God before the preacher does, if we don't watch it, in his researches. That's right.
Now, science, some three hundred years ago, a French scientist said, proved it by rolling a ball around, like the earth, and said, "If a man (scientifically proved it)... If a person could go the terrific speed of thirty-five miles an hour, gravitation would take him off the earth."
Now, you think a modern science would listen to that? Certainly not. He's going two thousand miles an hour now. And he's not even stopping at that; he's going on. And we try to look back to see what somebody else said.

L-36 All things are possible to them that believe. We've got the untapped resources of God at our hands to--to display God. We are sons and daughters of God. When God made man, He made him a god. He gave him a dominion over the earth. But his fallen estate dropped that. But what they lost by Adam, it was restored by Christ.
He said, "If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said shall come to pass, you can have what you've said."...?... All things, whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it and you shall have it. Amen. He restored to us all that was lost in Adam...
But today, we just think going to church, putting our name on the book, being immersed or sprinkled, or whatever it is, shake hands with the congregation, with the pastor, that settles it. And then we come up to Pentecost. We receive the Holy Ghost; It fell upon us, and we begin shouting and praising God. And the Power of God came down, and we spoke in tongues, heard them interpret it, make great quotations, and so forth, and prophesies. That sound fine, but we just stop. That's just the beginning. Just keep moving on; just keep going on and on and on. God is depending on us.


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