<TITLE>18. Par 53-55</TITLE>L-53 So he said, "What do you think we, Lutherans, has got?"
I said, "Potentially, I think you're all right." He said... I said, "Let me just give you a little parable, because I don't know just exactly." I said, "Now, what do you do here? You go out and you plow up your field in the springtime. You rake all the stalks out of it, and you plant your corn. The next morning, you go out, and the first thing you know, you say..." There's two little shoots comes up on corn, two little blades. And I say, "You look out and see them little shoots coming, you say, 'Praise the Lord. I got a corn crop.'" I said, "Have you got a corn crop?"
Said, "Well, I don't know what you're talking about."
I said, "Potentially, you have a corn crop." I said, "That was you Lutherans--first reformation. And then the first thing you know, that stalk growed on up, these leaves got big, and the first thing you know, it went into a tassel; that was John Wesley on the second reformation--sanctification: second definite work of grace. Then what did it do?" I said, "The tassel looked back down to the stalk, and to the leaf, and said, 'I have no need of you. We got sanctified; you're just Lutherans.'" I said, "After while, the pollen went forth, and fell down into the leaf of the corn, and come forth, and had a ear, a grain of corn on it." I said, "That was the Pentecostals." I said, "Then the Pentecost looked up and said, 'I have no need of either of you.'" But I said, "After all, the same life that was in the two little, blades made the tassel, and also made the grain." That's right. I said, "We..." See?
Pentecost is a restoration. Pentecost has the Holy Spirit, but a restoration of the gifts. The same Grain, the same Jesus that went into the ground is reproducing Himself, come up through the stalk, and now reproducing Himself in the fullness and the original grains like it went down." Amen.
He said, "What would you call us?"
I said, "The Pentecostal church is an advanced Lutheran church." That's right. Exactly right. It's the advanced Lutheran, and Nazarene, and Pilgrim Holiness, and all. It's just the advanced church. I said, "I'll admit we got a lot of fungus on the ear, but we've got some grains there too." Praise God. It--it's the original.

L-54 God is in His Word, and the Word is a Seed. No matter what happens it's going to grow anyhow. God said it would be there without spot or wrinkle. You believe God's in His Word? God takes His Word; God keeps His Word; God keeps His promise of His Word. What He does, He does it. God's in His universe. Amen? God's in His Word. Believe that?
Now, God in His Son, I got wrote down here. God in His Son. All right. Is God in His Son? The Bible said He was. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.

L-55 Now, if you oneness, twoness, threeness, fourness, and whatever you are, will just get this in your mind right now, you--you'd shake hands and say we're brothers. Look, God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Jesus was the Son of God that God overshadowed Mary, created in the womb a Blood cell.
Now, you've heard people say, "We were saved by Jewish blood." We could not be saved by Jewish blood. It's just as sinful as any other blood.
"We were saved by the blood of Gentile?" No, sir. We wasn't even saved by human blood. We were saved by the Blood of God, God's Blood. The--the germ of life comes from the blood cell, and the Blood Cell here came from God the Creator, Who created a Blood Cell that brought forth the Son of God.


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