<TITLE>06. Par 51-58</TITLE>L-51 Now, just one thing before we start on this Book. At the beginning was a Pentecostal church. And that Pentecostal church moved out in the power of the Spirit and wrote a Book of Acts. The second round, it begin to dwindle; the church become formal. Second church age, it was real formal, but that little seed of Pentecost kept coming on, the spiritual. Then it went into a place of dark ages, of about fourteen hundred years and something of a dark persecution; that little Pentecostal age kept living on through that. How it survived it, don't ask me; it was a hand of God, the only thing that could've done it.
Because they pegged them down to posts. And took the men and turned them over a--a stump, and took wooden pegs, and drove in their legs, and let the animal, dogs, eat them from the back, pull their intestines through them, before they even died. Taken women, cut off their breasts with a snip like that, their right breast, and stand and let that blood just flow out till their life would go out of them. Took the babies from the expectant mothers and fed them to the dogs and hogs while they were looking at them. Supposingly to be Christianity, but the Bible said, and Jesus said, "It would come to pass that they would kill you, thinking they were doing God a service." See?

L-53 And now, that thing creeped down until another age. Then finally it come out. Then we notice as the church become out in the reformation. It's pulled off and pulled off from that time, and got away from the Spirit, got away from the Spirit, right on down until this last age when it's ready to consolidate itself and make an image unto the beast. But that little Spirit shall live in the hearts of people until Jesus comes. It's got to be.
Bear that in mind, we'll draw it out on the maps, take the history and everything, and show you that it's exactly that way. Let you take the history yourself and read it, see what the Bible said and then what the history said, see how it meets just exactly like that.
Oh, may we all not just take this as a lecture, but may we solemnly, solemnly take the warnings of the Holy Spirit and pray day and night. Don't let nothing stop you from praying.

L-57 We get in and dig up the lives of those great men back in there, how they sacrificed. You'll see how little you've done. Makes me feel ashamed of myself sometimes, how we have to have everything so easy; they had everything so hard. "Wandered about," Paul said in Hebrews 11, "in sheepskins and goat skins, tormented and afflicted, destitute." What will our testimony stand up aside of theirs? How will it be up the side of that? And we have to have everything so nice.

L-58 Now, just in respects before we open the Book, I'd like for us all who can, just stand for a moment for prayer. Now, with the sincerity of your heart, breathe a word of prayer for--to God.
Lord God, the Creator of the heavens and earth, the Author of Everlasting Life, and the Giver of all good and perfect gifts, we would ask You, Lord, first to forgive us of all of our indifferences and our sins and our trespasses against Thee and against one another and our fellowman.
May this little time of coming together not only be for the edifying of our own souls, but may it be to enlighten us in such a way and inspire us till we'll go tell others. May it be a time of rededication, uniting with the full body of Christ and being ready for the rapture.
Father God, not by my own feelings, knowing that Thy servant and all other servants are insufficient for this great task... Realizing how great men gone by has took upon their hearts to try to reveal this, or to comment upon the great Revelation; then we realize that we're more than they are, insufficient. But Thou art our Sufficiency.


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