<TITLE>25. Par 80-83</TITLE>L-80 As I said this morning, if the first branch of the vine brought forth a Pentecostal church, every real branch out of that vine will bring forth another Pentecostal church. But we got a lot of grafted branches, and they bring forth after their kind. We got Methodist branch grafted into it, Baptist branch, Pentecostal branch, every other kind of branch. It bears its own fruit.
You can take a orange tree and put a grapefruit in it. It'll live off the life of that tree, but it'll bear grapefruit. Put a lemon in there, it'll bear lemon, not an orange, yet it's living off of orange life. See, any citrus fruit...
Any church professing to be Christian thrives off of the glory and praises of Christ. But it can't bear the fruit. It won't bear the Life of Christ until Christ puts forth that branch Himself. Then it'll--it'll write another Book of Acts behind it (that's right), because it is the acts of the Holy Spirit in the church. See? That's the way it is tonight, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Let us pray now, and everybody get real quiet. Don't move. Set still in your chairs, or your seats, pew. Wherever it is, just sit real still for a while. Be reverent.

L-81 Father, this is a great statement, but here tonight over just a hundred, a few people here setting here; I've asked You to come forward, whether there be tens of thousands, yes, hundreds of thousands. You've never failed us yet.
My days are growing dim now, Lord. I'm... Someday I'm going to have to close this Bible for Its last time. If I should go tonight, You've proved the testimony to be true. Since a little lad I've told them that I saw a Light. It was amber, like a Pillar. You've let science all around the world take that picture and examine it. Many times have You come, and now it's in Kodachrome color. You let it be taken a few weeks ago in Germany, Switzerland, around the world, cameras of the nation. If I die, the mechanical camera speaks that I've told them the truth. Your very Presence shows that it was the truth. Your Bible claims that it's the truth. Father, may people believe it as truth, and receive Thee tonight as their Healer, as their Saviour, as their King, as their Lord: Lordship to govern, to rule in their lives. Grant it, Lord.

L-82 Now, with myself, and this church, I commit all into Your hands, that You might do something tonight to show these people that You're still the God-prophet. You're still God. You just... They... You died to take away sin, but You rose up the third day. You said, "I have power to lay My life down, and I have power to take it up. No one took it from You, and no one raised it up." You laid Your Ownself down, raised Your Ownself up.
The Bible said God raised Him up, and it's true. Father, You're alive forevermore, living in the hearts of Your people, with the promise, "The works that I do shall they do also." I'm quoting this, Lord, because You're true to Your Word. And You said as it was in the days of Sodom, it'll be that way just at the coming of the Son of man.
And we remember, when those signs were performed in Sodom, it was just a short time until the fire fell and burned Sodom. We are looking for it any time, Lord. We see the sign appearing. We see the world in the Sodom condition, the promises of God made manifest. Will You do it once more tonight, Lord, for the honor and glory of Him Who taught the Word? I ask in Jesus Christ's Name, for God's glory. Amen.

L-83 Now, no matter what goes on, be reverent. I don't mean that you can't praise God, but you approach God quietly, sanely, wonderfully. And then, when you see God do something, sure, He wants you to worship Him. But come reverently.
Now, when you people come in the line, coming here, or out there, be on the alert. I'm watching. I have no control of It. I do not control It; It controls me. I can only speak what It tells me. I can only speak in where It's at. I watch It. Wherever It is, there I watch It, and see what It does.


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