<TITLE>04. Par 26-33</TITLE>L-26 This is not our home; we're just sojourning here trying to bring other citizens out of the darkness. And go into a city, maybe hold a city-wide campaign, just plow away for a week or ten days, for one precious soul out there, one, just one setting out there.
You might say, "The meeting was a great success; five thousand came to the altar." There might not be one of them saved, not a one of them. See? And there might be... You might think there, "Only two people came to the altar"; but one of them might be a jewel. We're just seining in the creek. God picks out the fish; He knows which is fish and which is not.
So see, we're just preaching. And remember, you're doing the same thing in this Tabernacle. But remember always this, "My sheep know My voice." And the Voice of God is His Word.

L-29 I was thinking the other day how these people that says that there never was... A certain denomination of churches saying, "Divine healing wasn't right. Never was nobody given a gift of Divine healing but Saint Paul or the apostles, the twelve in the upper room. They was given the gift of Divine healing, and that was all. That settled it."
But, you see, through this wonderful chart that Brother Willie over here so marvelously fixed up for us, that little thread has been through the churches all the way. I wonder what that same denomination says about the history of the church, about Irenaeus, about Saint Martin? And all those martyrs down through the age, for hundreds of years after the death of the apostles, spoke in tongues, and healed the sick, and raised the dead, and performed miracles, the whole church. Wonder what about them, if it was only to the apostles?

L-31 See how narrow it is? They don't have spiritual understanding; that's all. See, "Blind, dead in sin and trespasses." Sin means unbelief. Anything in unbelief is sin. If a fellow got a--a title that long of D.D., double L., Ph.D., L.L.D., and says there's no such a thing as Divine healing or the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the man's dead in sin. He might be able to explain all kinds of mysteries in the Bible, but his very life, his testimony, proves that he's dead. He's dead in sin and trespasses, because he's a sinner.
Sin is unbelief. Anybody ought... Sin is--isn't committing adultery, and smoking cigarettes, and dancing, and carrying on like that. That isn't sin; that's the attributes of unbelief. But a--a believer... No matter if a man don't drink, don't smoke, don't do these things, never said a bad word, keeps all the ten commandments; he can still be a black sinner (See?), just as rank as he can be. If he denies anything of the power of God, he's a sinner. The word "sin" is "unbelief." Now, you just find, see if that's right or not. An unbeliever in the Word of God, he is a sinner, cannot enter that Kingdom of heaven.

L-33 Now, oh, I thought then this morning, taking it--it upon myself by the will of the Lord, by the commandment of the Holy Spirit, to come down to the Tabernacle again and maybe keep you all two or three hours. But I want to finish the book of the 4th chapter of Revelations before I go. And now, I hope it's not wearisome to you; I hope it's--it's glory to you. I hope it's something that'll do you good and help you in the days ahead to come.
And now, maybe... I told Billy to come down here this morning and to give out prayer cards if there was any strangers in our midst, because we'll be leaving, and now, and I don't know when we'll be back. God only knows that. And I wanted--thought maybe the last meeting if... And when he called me up then about--about nine o'clock and said, "Dad, there's some people there to be prayed for. I've asked them," but said, "it's people that--it's people that comes to church all the time."


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