<TITLE>17. Par 117-128</TITLE>L-117 Now, I want to ask you something. When a natural birth takes place, what's the first thing happens? Water. The next thing? Blood. That right? Next thing? Spirit. That's right.
What came out of the body of Jesus when He died? They pierced His side, and water and Blood came out, "And into Thy hands I commend My Spirit": Water, Blood, Spirit.
"Therefore being justified by faith (Romans 5:1), we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ," justification. Sanctification, Hebrews 13:12 and 13, "Jesus suffered without the gates that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood." Luke 24:49, "But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high. After this the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you'll be My witnesses in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samar..."
Not when you become bishop, not when you become deacon, not when you become pastor, not when you become pope, "But after this the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you'll bear witness." You can only bear witness of your church and of your creed, it's a... If you're just a deacon, if you're just a pastor, if you're just a pope, or if you're... You're bearing record of a creed. But when the Holy Ghost is come upon, then you bear record of Him. And the works that He did, you do too, 'cause His Life is in you. Oh, oh. My, my. Like that. Yes, sir. Oh, I get it, more of it up here, I believe, than you do out there. I just feel good with It.

L-121 "Things that are ready to die, hold on to them." Now, he says here, now in the 3rd verse:
Remember therefore how thou has received and heard,... (I like that.)... and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shall not watch, I will come unto thee as a thief, and thou shall not know the hour that I come upon thee.
"Hold fast to your justification; stick to it." Don't let them people stomp that back away from him. "That also that you have received, you heard." They read the same Bible that we read. See? But they just didn't take all of It, because It wasn't revealed to them. It wasn't for their age. That's the reason that they'll come forth in the resurrection. They walked in what Light they had to walk in, so they'll come forth.

L-123 Now, I've heard many Pentecostal people that preaches the baptism, saying, "Them Lutherans and so forth won't come forth." Oh, yes. I know a little story about Doctor Aegery up there, when I told him... He said, "What are we?" I said... You know, they raised that great Lutheran seminary there, Bethany, at Minneapolis. And he said, "Well, what have we Lutherans got?"
I said, "Well, I'll tell you. I believe you got Christ."
And he said, "Well, we want--we want the Holy Ghost." He said, "Do you think we got It?"
I said, "Potentially." And I said, "You're believing unto It."
He said, "Well, what do you mean?"

L-128 Now, they have thousands of acres there that the students... If they can't--can't pay their way through, they let them work their way through and raise corn. I said, "Well..." There's just--just big tables. They give me one of these smorgasbord dinner down there in that big seminary, and there's fine men. Doctor Aegery setting here, and Brother Jack Moore over here, 'cause I was set him close where if he got to speaking some big words I didn't know, I was going to punch Jack with my leg and see what he said. You see? So then, I said...
He set next to me, and he said, "Well, what we want to do is find out something here." Said, "We're hungry for God." And said, "We read a book on Pentecostals, the Gifts" And said, "We went, a bunch of us brethren flew to California; we met the man that wrote the book." (I know him.) He said, "We'd like to see some of the gifts in operation." He said, 'I don't have any of them,' said, 'I just wrote about them.'" He said... And said, "Then when we come over there and we seen this, we're hungry. We want God."


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