<TITLE>05. Par 40-46</TITLE>L-40 Now, if we notice the salute to this church, as we're going to start now on the 7th verse, the messenger of Philadelphia. The true church in the... The true church in the professing church, it was a true church in the professing.
... to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write;...
I've called your attention to the lapping over, each one, now. Now, you'll get here, the angel... If you'll watch the way he brought in the age of the Methodist age lapping on, and run over into a little bit of the Philadelphian--or to the Laodicean, Pentecostal age. Then tomorrow night, the Pentecostal messenger comes back to rebuke these for falling, just as this age rebuked them from falling back here in Sardis, the Lutheran age, the lapover.

L-42 Brotherly love... It was a great age of missionaries and missions. The world has never seen the time; it even goes over into our time now, that when the world ever seen such a time of missionaries everywhere. In the last, oh, I'd say the last hundred and fifty years, it's been one of the most outstanding times of world history for missionaries getting into all parts of the world with the Gospel. It has been...
As far as literally, as literally just going, sending the message of the Gospel on paper and tracts and books and so forth, the Gospel has long ago went to every nation under the heavens, long ago. So, you see, that goes to prove that that wasn't what Jesus was talking about. He never said go into all the world and make Bible schools. Neither did He say go into all the world and pass out literature. Those things are fine.

L-44 But His commission to the church was, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." And the Gospel is not altogether the Word, but it's making the Word come to Life. See? Because Jesus said immediately, "These signs shall follow them that believe." You know, Mark 16, His last--His last mission to the church was, "These signs shall follow them that believe." His first commission to the church in Matthew the 10th chapter was, "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils; as freely as you have received, freely give." And His last message to the church was, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned; and these signs shall follow them that believe."
Isn't it strange that many cut off that part there? "And" is a conjunction that ties your sentence together. See? Now, He said, (Many of ministers will say, "Go preach the Gospel"), "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned, and these signs shall follow them (shall)--follow them (them) that believe. In My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents, or drink a deadly thing, it'll not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Signs of the living God moving among the people... Oh, how far now? To all the world. You get it? All the world.

L-46 So therefore, when I say that the Pentecostal message, not the Pentecostal organization now, the Pentecostal message is the only true message from God... Now look, Mark 16, if you're reading It there. All right, right here Jesus commissioned His church, "Go into all the world, preach the Gospel; these signs: speaking in tongues, healing the sick, performing miracles..." Will last till how far? "All the world." How--how many? "To every creature." That's all the way down to the end here, to the consummation. All right. These signs shall follow just this church? "Them that believe in all the world. All the world, to every creature, these signs shall follow them," not this, them that believe. So it's a Pentecostal church. See, see?


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