<TITLE>09. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 Now, there's where Pentecostal church failed, when they become sons, they settled down, said, "This is it; we're got our church; we've got our denomination, and we'll just keep adding more." No, that isn't it. That isn't what... "We'll build a better building." That's good. Add more to the the church, that's good. But God made you a son to give you a trial, to see how you're going to act with it.
Now, this father tried to look around and find the very best tutor that he could find for his child. Now, that was his son, and he didn't want some renegade trying to raise his child. He wanted a man that would be honest. He wanted a man, not would try to get a feather in his hat to tell the father, "Oh, the son's doing well," when he's not. He wanted a man that would be honest and bring him the right kind of a report, and see how this child was being raised. So he'd search out, and find the very best tutor he could find. And that was a type of what God was doing.

L-36 God never asked a man to do anything that He wouldn't do Himself. That's the reason God was made flesh and died for the sinner, because He placed the sin on the sinner.
Now, notice, then when this taken place, the tutor would go about, teach the child, raise it, and bring the report to the parents, how the baby was doing, or how the--the child was doing. Now, when this child raised up, yet it was a son in the home, a... What if this child, at a certain age, begin to act bad? Now, that tutor had to be an honest man to bring the right report to the parent.

L-37 Now, when God sent His sons out, sons and daughters, He got a Tutor or a Raiser for that sons and daughters. And it wasn't a bishop, neither was it a cardinal. He couldn't trust them. So he got the best there was in heaven to raise His church. The Holy Spirit, He's the Tutor of the church. And we've turned... He's honest. He will tell the Father just exactly what we're doing. He will not hold back one thing. He will be honest before the Father, how His children's progressing. Now, that's the reason He picked that One. There was no better He could find, than to have the Holy Spirit.
We've adopted everything else but the Holy Spirit. We don't want the Holy Spirit to teach us. We want to let the bishop tell us what to do, or the--the cardinals, or--or somebody to tell us what to do. Don't make any difference what they say, if it's contrary to God's Word, and the leading of the Holy Spirit, listen to the Holy Spirit, for that's your Tutor. Amen.
If they say, "The days of miracles is past." Let it be a lie, because God said, "He's the same, yesterday, today, and forever."
If they say, "The Holy Ghost was only for the disciples." Peter said on the Day of Pentecost, "It's for you, and for your children, and for them that's far off, even as many as the Lord, our God, shall call." You have no business tampering with it.

L-38 Sometime ago, I was preaching on the subject of Isaiah 1:18. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? And it's just like a man dying on the doctor's steps, refuse to take his medicine. It ain't the doctor's fault; it ain't the medicine's fault; it's the man, because he won't take the medicine. That's the way it is with the church today. We've got balm; we've got physicians; we've got medicine, but sinners die in their seats, in their churches and go to torment, because they refuse to take the medicine. Ain't the doctor's fault. It ain't the medicine's fault. It's the man's fault that won't come. That's right. We got Balm in Gilead.


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