<TITLE>29. Par 272-277</TITLE>L-272 Do you get it? Paul said, "If Israel come up and seen the signs here of the Holy Spirit, and was cut off..." Remember, because they rejected Paul's message (baptism in Jesus' Name, repentance and baptism in Jesus' Name, signs and wonders following the believer), and they rejected it... And they said, "Lo, we turn to the Gentiles." Is that right?
Let's see, I believe it was at the--where they first called Christians was at Ephesus, All right, Antioch.

L-274 Now, now, if--if the first tree was holy, its branches holy, the original tree, and because they disbelieved the Pentecostal message that Paul was preaching (Is that so?), God cut them off and took a wild olive tree, which was the Gentiles, us, and grafted us in that we might live off the bra--the substance of that tree...
Now, how much more in this day when we are rejecting the Pentecostal message that's come down through the church ages, how much more is God able to take that old wild tree off of it anyhow, and let the other one come in? Because He will reject it because of unbelief. Now, dovetail that with the lesson this morning. You know where we're standing now, don't you? We're at the end time for the taking away of the Gentile church, the rapture for it; and the issuing in of the Holy Ghost to come upon the Jews, and Jesus to make Hisself known, to seal the hundred and forty-four thousand. There you are. Bring back the original tree back into--the blessing into Israel again.

L-276 Jesus ain't going to stand outside of your door and knock all the time. There's a time when He'll get enough and turn away, then you'll do the knocking but you'll never find Him. Come while there's time. Come while there's a knock. Don't you compromise with anything less than the baptism of the Holy Ghost like they got at Pentecost, with the same type of water baptism, the same things that they did there. Don't you let nothing put anything in your heart less than that.

L-277 Now, to you my Catholic friends, let me tell you something; you believe in the virgin Mary. Virgin Mary, being the mother of Jesus Christ, had to go up to Pentecost and be filled with the Holy Ghost, and she act like a drunk person. She was among them hundred and twenty, had the baptism of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues and acting like a drunk woman out there, under the Spirit of God. And if the virgin Mary had to do that in order to get into glory, how are you going to get in it anything less than that? Think of it. That's right.
Baptists... That Baptist preacher back here wants to be sure that it's said to the Baptists also. That's for anybody, don't care who it is.
So just joining church, and saying a creed, and going to church every Sunday morning, won't do you one speck of good. You're only making a mock out of God. Either be a real Christian or don't be anything at all. Be either hot or cold. Either be out... 'Cause you can't be... You never did see a black-white bird; neither did you see a drunk-sober man; you never did see a sinner-saint. No, you don't; they don't make them. You're either filled with the Holy Spirit and God living in you, or you're not at all. You--you are or you are not.


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