<TITLE>13. Par 85-94</TITLE>L-85 Oh, what a setting now. All right, the church then under John, or under great persecution, John writes the 9th verse:
I John, who also am your brother, in tribula... and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and in the patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
In other words, he took the Word of God and was proving It, that was the Word of God, and Christ came back through him and testified that he was right. There you are. God's Word being made manifest in him, proving that He was God's servant. Then they couldn't deny that, so they had to tell him that he was a witch; he bewitched the grease, and it wouldn't hurt him, and he bewitched the people and they wasn't healed; and he was a fortuneteller that couldn't--some kind of a bad person, a ill spirit, a foul spirit. And that's the reason they put him out there, thought he was dangerous to be amongst the society. But he was only carrying out the will of God, and God had a purpose under all that condition.

L-87 He could not use him, and all the persecutions and things, 'cause the saints was coming, "Oh, Brother John, what will we do about this? And what will we do?"
John was a prophet; we know that. And so they were asking these questions, so God just had the Roman Empire to pick him up and set him out there on the isle. And He said, "Now, come on, John, I want to show you something that's going to happen." The last of the apostles, there wasn't no more to write it but John. So they set him out on the Isle of Patmos from A.D. 95 until A.D. 96. And he wrote it, and he said:
I am your brother, and companion in tribulation,...
Now, he didn't speak of the great tribulation. That was not the great tribulation, and does not come to the church. The great tribulation comes to the Jew, not to the church. So it wasn't the tribulation, the great tribulation.

L-90 Now, the 10th verse:
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me the... voice,... of a trumpet,
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,...
Now, you can't do any good until first you get in the Spirit; God can't use you. You're--you're--you're--you're... All your efforts are--are in vain until first you do it in the Spirit. "If I will sing, I will sing in the Spirit. If I'll pray," said Paul, "I'll pray in the Spirit." And then if there is anything that comes through you that's any good, it has to be revealed to me by the Spirit and confirmed by the Word, made manifest by the results it bears.

L-92 Now, like, other words, if I say, Jesus Christ promised in His Word that if I would repent, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, I shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The first thing for me to do is to repent. It's revealed to me that that's true. Then be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ; then the results is I receive the Holy Ghost.
If I am sick, and He promised me if I would believe and have the elders of the church anoint me in oil and pray over me, the prayer of faith shall save the sick. "Lord, I believe. I follow Your instructions, Brother Neville who prays over me, anoints me with oil..." That settles it, just go on; it's all--it's all over.

L-94 Oh, you say, you don't feel any different though. Jesus wasn't born... When God slayed Him before the foundation of the world, when He was the--He was the Lamb of God, slain before the foundation of the world. But in God's own mind, He was already done. I wasn't here then neither; neither was you. But in God's book, if our names was ever on there, it was put on before the foundation of the world.
When God says anything, It has to take place. So when you meet God's qualifications, just remember, God will manifest Hisself and take care of the rest of it; you just go ahead as a finished work. Oh, isn't that wonderful? Oh, my, think. Just tell God. God said, "You do this, and I'll do this." Well, if I go do this,  He's got to do that.


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