<TITLE>08. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Her believing was over then, she didn't have to believe then. It was already done. See? You just believe unto, till it's done, then you know it. So then... It's all... The work's finished. That's the way a vision is when He says a certain thing's going to happen, then you just believe until that happens, then it's over. See? You believe it's going to happen, when it's already happened; it's over.
So then, after while she seen. She waited about a half hour and nothing happened; she was hungry again. She fried her up a couple of eggs, and got her some toast, and made her a cup of coffee, and she had a gastronomical jubilee. She just had her a good time. And she waited till about a--up to about ten o'clock and she... Oh, it was just fine and dandy, getting hungry again. So she was so happy, she said, "I'm going to run down and tell her neighbor."

L-25 And she--when she got almost to the house, she heard somebody screaming down there at the top of their voice. And she run to the door, and jerked open the door. Here was this woman with this sheet in her hand, shaking the sheet, walking up-and-down the floor. Said, "What's the matter?"
The woman that had the lump on her neck, said, "You know what?" Said, "This morning I got up and the lump's gone. I've searched all through the bed; I've shook the sheets and everywhere; I can't find it anywhere." See?
And they come about five hundred miles to testify of that. What was it? The Angel of the Lord passed through the neighborhood that morning. See? Sometimes God can't answer just at the moment. How many knows that Daniel prayed, and it was twenty-one days before? Remember that? Sure. But when God says anything, God stays with His Word. You stay with It too. But if you leave the Word, you leave God, leave your--leave your blessing and everything there. Stay and obey God's Word. What God says, God does. And that's the way Abraham had to do.

L-26 So then God confirmed it with him, and we went through last night the beautiful order of confirmation. And how in the Orient, and how God tore Christ apart, and taken His body up to His right side, right-hand rather, and sent down the Holy Spirit upon the Church to--to anoint other sons and daughters of God. And that same Spirit that was on Christ is in the Church now. Do you believe that?
A--look. I have something to say, but I--I'm afraid--I'm afraid it'll be misunderstood. Let's take a triangle, say, like this. Now, we're going to start at the bottom. That was the first reformation, Martin Luther. Oh, it was a--it was a horrible thing to even say you was a Christian then, because you were persecuted, and made fun of, and everything. Remember, the righteous is always persecuted, always have been, and always will be.

L-27 Now, that we have plenty of room, just justification by faith. That went on for awhile, until we had Calvin, and Knox, and so forth. Then after while come in John Wesley with a new message of sanctification. The Church become in the minority. Then the Wesleyan organized, and got all different kinds of organizations. Along come the Baptist, and the Campbellites, and the so forth after that. And finally the first thing you know, begin to ravel out.
And now watch, it's coming closer all the time, just like a pyramid (See?), coming closer all the time: Church becoming in the minority. Then after the Wesleyan died out on sanctification, along come the Pentecostal with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the restoration of the gifts.
Now--now, she's becoming in the minority (See?) again, coming down. Now, it's going to... Now, the Spirit of God was in the Lutherans. The Spirit of God was in the Wesley, and the Spirit of God was in the Pentecostals. But what is it? The Pentecostal Church is an advanced Lutheran Church. That's all. It's an advanced Lutheran Church.
Now, when it comes down to here, the church is going to have to be in such a order.


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