<TITLE>40. Par 347-355</TITLE>L-347 Now, let's just go back and see Matthew 10:1. Just turn back now so we... Then we're going to close just in about another five, ten minutes, at the most, the Lord willing. All right, let's get Matthew 10, see if Matthew guards the Acts of the apostles.
Did you think that--that God don't put a guard around His Word? See if that ox, lion, man, eagle; isn't it still setting at those gates right here on earth right now? They're the Gospels, the four Gospels. See? And you notice, every way they went they went straight forward. They don't contradict one another; they stay with one another. See? One goes with the shrewdness of a man; the other one goes with the swiftness of an eagle; the other one's a pastor... One's evangelist, to fly like evangelist. See? The other one's a pastor; the other's sturdy; the other one's shrewd. See, guarded on every side, God guarding this Holy Ghost Gospel. Believe it, brother. All right.

L-349 Now, let's take Matthew 10:1.
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power... Hm.
They gathered in the upper room,
All praying in His Name,
Baptized with the Holy Ghost,
And power for service came;
What He did for them that day
He'll do for you the same,
I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them.
Oh, just pacify the babies just a minute now. Just listen, listen close.
... and gave them power against unclean spirits,...
Many pastors just let the unclean spirits stay right in his church; women dress, act... and card parties, bunco games, dances, soup suppers there. Oh, mercy.
... against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases.
See that guard setting there at the gate? The Gospel guard to back up that book of Acts that was wrote...

L-353 Now, I heard a great teacher not long ago, said, the... one... A great man, fine man, met him, shook his hand, a fine brother, he said, "But the Acts of the apostles was just the framework for the church." Huh. In other words, he had the framework out here. See? When the Acts of the apostles was inside, and these Gospels are the framework to hold it together and protect it. See how the--the--the mind of a man can do anything. I'd thought the same thing if it wasn't for Him. See?
The framework, Pentecost wasn't the framework of the Gospel. The four Gospels are the framework to back Pentecost. After they had this framework up, Pentecost become into existence. Is that right? Which was wrote first, the Book of Acts or the--or the apostles? The apostles. Jesus walked along doing works and predicting what would come, and Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, them four guards come and was writing everything they seen coming to pass, telling it just like it is, how it was going to happen, what was going to take place. Then all at once they framed it around, and here it come. Amen. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is the framework, or the guard work that protects the main temple, the throne, the Pentecostal blessing.

L-355 Not Pentecostal denomination, brother, sister; they're plumb back outside of the whole thing, farther back than any other churches. They're farther away than Lutherans was; Lutheran did keep a little better than they did (That's right.), more like it. Just exactly right, Gene, 'cause, now, didn't see Jesus on the outside of the Lutheran church trying to get in, but was trying... 'cause I think He never was in the first place...?... He--he was in the Pentecostal church and was put out. That's right.
Now, Matthew 10:1...


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