<TITLE>22. Par 172-181</TITLE>L-172 Now, a sleeping virgin, and a wise virgin with Oil in their lamp. Now, all of a sudden, there came a sound, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him." And they wakened. But when they did, this one could go in, 'cause they had oil in the lamp. That was the difference.
This one could not go in, where there was no Oil in the lamp; they went back to pray up to receive the Holy Ghost. But while they were gone, it was all over. The denominations say, "Well, maybe we been wrong. Maybe we better go back, seek for the baptism of the Holy Ghost." That's what they're trying to do now. Did you notice that? The Presbyterians... Hold your tape a minute; I don't want to call this name. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... the Bridegroom come. And how close is His coming then, when they're going now to try to buy. All right, turn your tape on, Gene. Now, you get it? "While they went to buy," they're trying to buy now; all the churches try to have a revival, revival; it's trying to go back.

L-174 Now, even to Dr. Billy Graham, wrote in the "Herald of Faith," you seen it, from Chicago, and said that "We cannot disregard the Pentecostal move. (See?) We cannot... regard it, because they had more converts in a year's time than all the other churches put together."
That's exactly that fire burning, shaking it, culling, throwing the net in and pulling. And when you throw a net... Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God's like a man went and throwed a net into a sea, and when he pulled, he had turtles, snakes, frogs, serpents, everything else, but he had some fish too." That's what the Pentecostal message is doing; it's sweeping the earth; throwing it in and pull, we're getting turtles, crawfish, crawdads, tadpoles, water dogs, hell-divers, and everything else in there. But what it is, there's some fish in there too. That's the ones that's the Master's.
All right, to some of you legalist believing brethren on this tape, would like to burn it, when do they become fish? When the net went over them? They were fish in the beginning (that's right), elected from the foundation of the world. They just never come into the Master's use.

L-177 That's your frog. You take an old frog and throw him up on the bank, just "whop, whop" right back to the water.
And old crawfish setting there, say, "Aha, that's a bunch of holy-rollers." There he goes back, "Ah--ah--ah. Oh, no." Right back to the mud just as hard as he can go. That's right.
The old snake a-hissing along a little bit, "I believe the days of miracles is past. Doctor So-and-so and So-and-so told me." Said, "Ah--ah--ah, you can't fool me." There she goes, right on ahead anyway. You see? Snake to begin with, frog to begin with...
Paul said in the Bible, them kind, he said, "They went out from us because they wasn't of us to start with." See? Hm. All right, the foolish virgins...

L-181 The wise virgin with Oil in her lamp, she made ready. Now, while she was gone to get some Oil, that's what they're trying to do right now. These great evangelical churches, trying to find these great things, you know, do--go back to the Bible, and back, "We need the Pentecostal blessing." Why, you can imagine what kind of a service they're going to have. See? They ain't going to get down there and spoil all that manicure on them, and all that. Oh, no. They ain't going to give up them sororities and societies and things like that. Holding on to the world like Esau, in one hand, try to catch God with the other one, you can't do it. You can't be a cross-eyed Christian, you know, looking at God and the world too. You got to center yourself in Calvary, stay right there with that.


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