<TITLE>07. Par 27-31</TITLE>L-27 And you know, every time there's a great occasion takes place... This that we read of, was a great occasion. Peter later called it, the holy mount in one of his epistles. I do not believe that Saint Peter meant that it was the mountain was holy. It ain't the holy mountain; it's the holy God on the mountain. It isn't a holy church, or the holy people; it's the Holy Spirit in the church and in the people. It isn't the church that's holy, nor the people, it's the Holy Spirit that's in the church, and that's what makes it holy. I'm glad of that. God is the Holy Spirit, and He's the One that's holy. And He--His Presence brings His holy Presence among us, and changes our nature, and makes us want to live like Him.

L-28 God, before He does anything, always declares it in heaven first, and then on earth. No one ever goes into judgment without thoroughly being warned. Oh, I'd like to stop here for a half hour or three quarters, but I can't, and then have the prayer line, let you get up in time in the morning to get to church. But notice, exactly there's something going to follow this revival. God always sends mercy before judgment. He always has. He always will. And this great revival, that the church has had, a revival of miracles, and Divine healing, and gifts of the Spirit, remember, something follows that. God always sends mercy before judgment.
He declares it in the heavens above, liked the wise men saw the star, come to worship the Lord Jesus. And then, God always makes a witness of what He does.

L-29 Now, we find out, that Jesus, this great occasion, He selected three men. I always like to think of Peter, James, and John. When He raised Jairus' daughter, He took Peter, James, and John, and that's hope, faith, and charity. Those three are a witness. Three is a witness in the Old Testament. And so this time, this occasion was so great, and the message had to be so great, till God took witness. That's what we are thankful of tonight, what I'm so grateful to God, that this Pentecostal message, that we're preaching, God sends a witness. The Bible said in Hebrews 11, "God testified of His gift."
If a person says anything... A man can say anything, but if God doesn't back it up with His Word and with His Presence, then he don't have a witness. So what he says, if it--if he says it, the Bible says it, and the Spirit vindicates it, that's three witnesses, then it's truth. It's confirmed. God says that it is so.

L-30 Oh, then we find God, this occasion was so great, Jesus took faith, hope, and charity: Peter, James, John, and went up into the mountain. Now, this was such a special occasion until He had three heavenly witnesses there also: Elijah, Moses, and Jesus. Three in the earth; three in the heaven, He was going to be something that He wanted recorded and remembered.
Now, when we find out that after they looked up and they seen that--a shadow had overshadowed Him... Really what God was doing was in the Old Testament (as the ministering brethren know) was placing a Son.

L-31 Now, I want... I guess ninety percent of this audience is Pentecostal, so I want to just hope I don't hurt, but I--I just like to make a--a thought here, that's on my heart.
Now, where we made the mistake in our pentecostal realms is when we were--become sons of--daughters of God, filled with the Holy Ghost, we set down. There's where we made the vital mistake. Why, you're just then getting ready to go to work. If every person with the baptism of the Holy Ghost would be on fire, like Stephen's and like those on them days. The revival would sweep the country.
So say, "Well, I got saved, and sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost, and it's all over now." If God did that for you, He just chose you and selected you for His service to go to work. Go out into the streets, yes, witness, give witness of Him. That's exactly what we're supposed to do.


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