<TITLE>20. Par 72-75</TITLE>L-72 What if a man sit here with a long white robe on, and hair hanging way down like this? He might not have looked like that. That's just what the artists painted a picture of; He might look all together different from that. But what if he stood here, and had nail prints in his hands, prints of scars in his forehead, and sit here and said he was the Lord Jesus. You know, right quick I'd tell you he was wrong? That's exactly right. When Jesus comes, time shall be no more. That's right. It could not be the Lord Jesus.
But then, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, how could He be here? In the form of the Holy Spirit, where He sanctified us, to move into us, and to perform His works through us, 'cause that's His agents. "The works that I do shall you also." Is that right? Now, He might declare Hisself... How would He declare Hisself then to know that He was the same Jesus? Because that it would... He would... He'd be able to do the same work that He did before He was crucified. And that was, that He--He did what the Father showed Him. Now, if...
Is there anybody here that's never been in one of the meetings before? Raise your hand. Never been in one of the meetings... Well, God bless you; we're glad to have you in tonight.

L-73 Now, you out there, you just look up towards heaven, and say, "Lord, this man doesn't know me; I know he doesn't. But I'm sick. Now, let me see if that message he preached tonight, 'As it was in the days of Sodom... '"
How that that Angel come up there, and set down to Abraham: Three--two Angels and God. How many knows that was God? Abraham said it was God; he called Him "Elohim" the Lord God. He ought to know; he was the one talking to Him. Elohim set there with dusty clothes, and said... After the other two preachers went down into Sodom, one stayed with Abraham. Now remember, he was a stranger.
And he said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
How did He know he was married? How did He know he had a wife, his name was Abraham, and her name was Sarah? And the Bible says... Said it was in the tent behind him.
And he said, "I'm going to visit you according to life--time of life." (Like he promised.) And Sarah, inside the tent, laughed to herself.
And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"

L-74 Is that right? What kind of a telepathy was that? Now, Jesus said that same thing will take place just before the whole world burns like Sodom and Gomorrah burned; fire will fall from heaven. And He said that same thing will take place, the same works.
Now, watch--Martin Luther was the first in the reformation. He preached justification, wide stretch. Then along come Wesley; the Pillar of Fire moved. Wesley... Luther couldn't move, because he was organized. The Pillar of Fire went out; Wesley followed It--sanctification, the second work of grace. He built a great church; saved the world at that time, the Wesleyan revival. The what? The Methodist people? You built an organization; you ended your doctrine with a period. "We believe this and nothing else."

L-75 When the Holy Ghost begin to move out again, the Pillar of Fire, the Pentecostals saw it as the baptism, and the resurrection of the gifts. The Wesleyan couldn't move from that: Church of God, Pilgrim Holiness, Nazarene. They couldn't do it. They'd already settled for sanctification. But now come the baptism; the Pentecostals saw it.
Do you know what Billy Graham said the other day? "The Pentecostal church is the most powerful growing church that there is in the world today." That's right.
The "Sunday Visitor," the Catholic church said just recently that last year (or the year before last it was) that the Pentecostals registered a million five hundred thousand converts--above any other church there was in the world. Why? Men that don't even know their ABC's, preaching the Gospel, the power of God, that's right; God promised it.


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