<TITLE>12. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 You know, someone said one time... I was preaching; there was a woman crying, and she was just holding up her hands and crying, praising God. The Holy Spirit was there. The woman was filled with the Holy Ghost. How can a magnet draw anything unless it's magnetized to it? Correct. There was a man who belonged to another church, a friend of mine, were standing outside; he said, "Billy, I was enjoying your sermon until that woman raised up and started crying." Said, "How in the world could you preach? And her acting like that?"
I said, "That's the only time I can preach, when I see that the power of God is caught away the Church, caught away the message."
He said, "It just made shivers run over my back."
I said, "If you'd ever be fortunate enough to get to heaven, you'd freeze to death. Because they are crying and shouting and praising God day and night. Angels flying back and forth, crying, "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord. Holy..." Now, let me tell you something right now, my brother, you're living in the quietest world you'll ever live in. Amen. If you go to hell, there'll be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. If you go to heaven, there'll be hallelujahs and praise of God day and night for all times...?... This is the quietest place you ever lived in. Yes.

L-34 Oh, how God wants to bless His church. They've seen all those things and still carnal minded. How quick they forgot all those miracles when a--a new thing arose. When a new trial come on, they forgot all they'd seen. We do that. We have a meeting; the power of God will fall; great signs and wonders will take place; then Satan can come along and smack something over on you; you forget that that's the God of heaven that was just making you shout, making you praise the Lord. You forget the God of heaven that brought you out of the--like a firebrand, you forget the God of heaven Who dug you from the pits, from the rock from where you was dug from. Easy to forget Him...
Let me tell you, my brother, what we need tonight is a man with a iron conscience, that'll stand there in the power of the Holy Ghost. No matter what comes or goes, he's still waving that flag of victory going on to the promised land. We need tonight that kind of a church, that church unadulterated, sanctified by the Blood of Jesus Christ, anointed with the Holy Ghost, with signs and wonders, a shout of--of the King in the camp on their road, marching on.
Yes, sir, all of this, in spite of all this carnal stuff that they had done, all desert way over in the place, like the most of churches are tonight... Lot of Pentecostal there. When the heavy burdens come, and the people begin to cry, "Oh, we would to God that we'd died down in Egypt."

L-35 Now, what happened? God called Moses and Aaron into the--His Presence, come down in His Shekinah Glory and blessed them. God told the prophet, said, "Go, speak to the rock." Amen. In the midst of all their sins, if God was--wanted to put judgment upon us, there's none of us but what has complained. We're worthy of going to hell. We're not worthy of our healing. We're not worthy of our salvation. But in the midst of all of it, that same God that forgave their sins and all their doubtings, He still said, "Speak to the rock, and it will bring forth his waters." Amen. That's right. No matter what took place, still speak to the Rock. In their sins, still speak to the rock.
Right in the day when the churches are all so in fussy and stewing, one that says, "I'm this," and the other one, "I'm that." And one is this, that, and the other. Don't have nothing to do with them and that. God's right in the midst of all of it, still sends His Holy Spirit, still sends His power, still heals the sick, still shows the sign of the Messiah living among the people, the same yesterday, today, and forever, in the midst of our carnal quarrelings and things.


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