<TITLE>13. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 When John the Baptist came forth, he was--he was--he was part of the Word. He was like a Messiahette. He was--he was ordained of God by the Word. He was a gift of God that came to the world. Do you believe that? Isaiah 40 said he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. And when he come and got in his position to cry in the wilderness, he was perfectly fearless with it. Amen. Yes, sir. Brother, now look what--how great he was.
Now, when God spoke of John coming, why, He said all the mountains skipped like little rams, the leaves clapped their hands, and the high places was made low, and the low place was made high. I imagine the theological interpretation of that was, "Holy brethren, someday God will pull back the corridors of heaven, drop down Jacob's ladder, and there'll be a mighty prophet walk down out of the air; and an angelic escort coming with Him, coming down to the earth. And he will step down in the yard right here now, with the temple, where the holy temple is. And if Caiaphas is high priest, he will say, 'Your Honor, sir, I've come down.'"

L-42 Oh, my. What happened? When he come, there was an old fuzzy-faced guy coming out of the wilderness, piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, probably never took a bath every three months, walking out there, standing in mud up to his knees, and said, "Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." That's when the mountains skipped like little rams. That's when the leaves clapped their hands. That's when the high places was made low and the low places made high.
What--what man calls great, God calls foolish. I wonder if some of our greatness of evangelism today, if God don't call it a bunch of foolishness--trying to flower up big, somebody's, stuffed shirts and everything. I just wonder what God thinks about it. Why, He'd have... It ain't...

L-43 This--this Gospel ain't going to shake the world. It's not world shaking; it's church shaking. It shakes the church. Right now in these last few years, the church has been shook like it never... And the world knows nothing about it. It wasn't supposed to shake the world. They're dead anyhow. You can't shake them old dead carcasses out there. They're twice dead, plucked up by the roots. How can you do it?
"Well, I belong to So..."
"Well, go ahead and belong to it." See? You can't shake them.
"Well, grandmother did so-and-so."
That's... No matter what grandmother done, what's God doing now? This is the Light. Walk in it. Grandmother lived in her days. It was all right, but you can't live in her life. Why don't you wear her clothes then, sister? Maybe that was just a little too rank, but... No, you want to take her church, but you won't wear her clothes.

L-44 All true prophets of God call out against sin. All anointed ones do. That's true. They do. And God keeps His Word to every one. He always does. God will take you... That is, you'll receive every promise if you go through the Pentecostal clearing house.
You know, you write a check; they won't pay that check till it goes through the clearing house. It's got to go through the--the clearing house; then the check is paid off. And when you say you repented, and you're ready to go through God's Pentecostal clearing house, God will pay off with every gift He promised. Amen.
Try Acts 2:38 one time, and see if that's His clearing house. You know, Paul mentioned to people in Acts 19 hadn't been through the clearing house yet. Yeah. He said... Oh, they was having great joy, but said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
Said, "Didn't know whether there be any."
Said, "How was you baptized?"
Said, "We've been baptized all right."
Said, "How? To what?
Said, "Unto John's."
Said, "That won't work. You got to go through the clearing house. God's done fixed up His bank to pay off these promises with."


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