<TITLE>12. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 And He said, "Verily, I say unto you, a little while, and the world (cosmos, which means the world order) will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I ('I' is a personal pronoun there.), I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the consummation," all the way down. "Go ye into all the world." Not just to this generation, all the world. You that say that the--want to say that the signs of the apostles, was the only ones that had the Holy Spirit, only ones that could do miracles, how can you read the history of the church and say such a thing as that? What about Polycarp? What about Irenaeus? What about Saint Martin? What are you going to do with those men? Columba? Columbia? All of those, what are you going to do with them? Hundreds of years later they still heal the sick, raise the dead, spoke in tongues, cast out devils; how you going to hide it? As long as that Son, S-o-n, of God's Holy Spirit shines on the church, signs and wonders will appear. Can't hide it. It's there.
Read this with me, Mark 16. "Go ye into all the world." It's never reached all the world yet. "Preach the Gospel," demonstrate the power. How much? "To every creature." See? "These signs shall follow them that believe." How far? All the world. Every creature. You just can't hide it. He never did say, "Go, teach the Word"; "Go, preach the Gospel." Demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost.

L-36 Now, if you don't know the Word, how will you know the sign? "These signs..." You got to know the Word to know what you're talking about. If you take it from some man's conception, then you never got it the way Peter got it. Then you'll draw your own idea about it. But Jesus told Peter, "Flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father which is in heaven. And upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can't prevail against it."
Now, to see whether it's right or not, go back and get the Pre-Nicene fathers, or the Nicene Council, and the--the historians of the age, and find out whether that in each time when people believed that Word, it produced just exactly what it said it would produce.

L-37 I seen not long ago where they went into the garners of Egypt and got some wheat that was put in there about twenty-five hundred years ago, yes, more than that, about three thousand years ago, put in there by Joseph. Some of the wheat had been laying there for all those years, and planted it in the ground and it produced again. No matter how long this Gospel lays here, two thousand years we've had mockers and scoffers, and saying the days of miracles is past, but put that Word in the right kind of a heart, it'll produce again just exactly like it did at the first time, 'cause it's the Word of God. It's got to come into a channel of faith. As long as it laid in the garner it didn't need nothing. It just stayed there as a memorial.

L-38 I was surprised in Rome. They've got authentically nineteen different nails that was nailed in Jesus' hand. Every one said, "We got it." "Our church has got it." "We got it." Nineteen nails that they can prove, when there was only three. See? Everybody wants a nail. Here not long ago a great--you understand what I mean, great one come forth with a piece... "Here's a piece of the original cross." What difference does that make? I don't care how many nails you got, how many pieces of cross you got. We need to produce this Word again. Put it not on a cross, on a nail, but on the living atmosphere of the Holy Spirit. That brings forth the results. God's Word, under the right atmosphere, will produce exactly what it says it'll do. It's got to be in the right atmosphere though. You can't lay it over in the seminary, or some Bible school that don't believe in signs and wonders. It'll never hap--it'll never break forth and bring life there. The atmosphere's wrong. But you got to put it in the right atmosphere. What kind of an atmosphere? A surrendered atmosphere. Stay there until it does go to growing and taking life. That's the idea.


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