<TITLE>14. Par 102-113</TITLE>L-102 After they done all these... Holy Ghost had fell on them, Peter said, "Can we forbid water, seeing that these has received the Holy Ghost like we did at the beginning?" And he commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. That's right.
Paul went over and found people shouting, having a big time, bunch of Baptists glorifying God, and he said, Acts 19, he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
They said, "We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost."
Said, "How was you baptized?"
They said, "We been baptized by the same man baptized Jesus: John the Baptist."
He said, "Yeah, it won't work any more." See? Peter done sealed it on the day of Pentecost. He had the key. See?
Said, "It won't work any more; you got to be baptized over again." So he baptized them over again in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, laid his hands upon them, and they had the same kind of results that they had there at the beginning. The Holy Ghost fell on them; they begin to speak in tongues and prophesy.

L-109 Now, that's been the church down through the age. Now, it started right here at the beginning.
"I know your patience. You're awful long-suffering. I know that... Now, remember, I'm He that walks in amongst the candlesticks. I know your patience, and your work, and your labor, and your love, and so forth. I know all that you've done. And I--I know that you've tried these people who call themselves prophets, apostles, and found that they are liars." Oh, that's pretty flat, isn't it? I'm not responsible for that; He is. He said they were liars.

L-111 But the Bible said, "Try a man. If there be any among you who's spiritual or a prophet, or says he is, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. I'll speak to him in visions and in dreams. And if what he says comes to pass, then hear him; don't be afraid of him (See?), because that I am with him. But if it doesn't come to pass, then don't hear him; he hasn't got My Word." See, if it's His Word, it happens.
Now, they found out these fellows wasn't carrying on according to the Bible. See, they were trying to get something else. (I want you to keep your thinking cap on now, where we get down to the nugget just in a few minutes.) Now, then He said, "I see what you--that you have long-suffering, and patience and with them. You've tried them and found out they're not apostles. They're not."

L-113 Now, as I said to begin, 'fore we start off on this again, every revival produces a pair of twins. One is a spiritual man; the other one is a natural man of the earth, "I joined the church; I'm just as good as anybody." And that's what this revival produced. That's what, every revival. That's what Luther's produced; that's what Irenaeus' produced; that's what Saint Martin's produced; that's what Columba's produced; that's what Wesley's produced; and that's what Pentecost produced. Just exactly.
You see how they've gone to seed, built their churches, and went on off, and big fine places, and (my, goodness) stand up and repeat the Apostles' Creed, "I believe in the Holy Roman Catholic church, and the communion of saints." Anybody that believes in the communion of saints is a spiritualist. Anything communes with the dead is of the devil. That's exactly right. We have one Mediator between God and man, that's the Man Jesus Christ. That's right. That's what Peter said.


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