<TITLE>18. Par 55-57</TITLE>L-55 So when I come to--to the Messuhalli that night, they'd put about thirty thousand in, then they make them go out, and another thirty thousand would come in for me to speak to. And then when I was coming down the street, here's them little Finnish soldiers never shaved yet, just boys, about six, seven in front, and six, seven in the back. And there stood those communists, Russian soldiers, standing there with that Russian salute when I passed by, with tears running down their cheeks, grabbed them Finnish soldiers and hugged them. Anything that'll make a Finn hug a Russian and a Russian hug a Finn will change wars and settle them forever. They said, "We will receive a God like this, a God that's got power, a God that can show Hisself God."
What it is, our churches that just bottleized it down to a lodge. It's more than a lodge. It's the baptism into the--the body of the living resurrected Jesus Christ with power and signs and wonders. That's the Gospel. That's Christ; that's God.

L-56 Notice him. Sure, Solomon, everybody rallied around him. Everybody would say, "Oh..." Everybody in one accord said, "Oh, come, see the great gift that our God give. Come, see the great gift that our God give." When God give us the gift of the Holy Ghost, that's our gift, the Holy Ghost. God sent us the Holy Ghost. What do we do? Laugh at It; call them holy-rollers; run them off on the corner; tell them they're insane; they're out of their minds; they don't come from our schools; they're nothing but a bunch of tongue's people. That's the reason we receive judgment.
What'd they do on the day of Pentecost? What'd them Jews do? Laugh and made fun of it. What did they do a few years later? Titus besieged the gates and slaughtered them right in there till the blood run out the gates and turned the place upside down, tore down the temple: been scattered ever since. That's right. We'll get the same. You've turned down the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. You've substituted a handshake or a letter from some other church to take Its place. The Holy Spirit is not a handshake; neither is It a letter. It's a gift of God with power from on high to demonstrate to the people. That's the Spirit of God that lives into us, that makes it and shows it, and proves to the people by signs and wonders that It is God. Hallelujah.
I know you'll call me a holy-roller after this, but th... Maybe I am one...?... I feel very religious right now anyhow.
Notice. God, demonstrations, powers, proving Himself that He is God. That's Scripture; you cannot deny but what it's the truth. Gifts of discernment... Now, all...

L-57 Just think the people passing by would say, "Oh, you should come to our nation, see our great powerful God. Why, He--He works among our people. He--He does great signs and wonders. We got a king called Solomon. You should see the great discernment that man's got. Why, it--it's beyond thought." Well, you know, faith cometh by hearing (Doesn't it?), hearing the Word of God. So the news spread all over the world, everywhere heard about this. And they all begin to fear, because--not fearing Solomon, but fearing God, because the living God was showing.
Finally the news got way down into Sheba, way down about hundreds of miles down, about three hundred miles down south, way down, across the Sahara Desert. Measure it on your map and see how far it was. Now, they didn't have television in them days, and radio, and newspapers, and telephones. They just traveled by--by the lip to the ear, and caravans would come through and bring the news. And everybody coming down into Sheba would say to the little queen, "Say, you should go up into--up into Palestine. You know they got a God up there that so blessed them people, they're all with one accord. There's not no friction among them at all. And they got a brother up there; they call him Solomon; they've made him the king. And they tell me that God just uses him for everything they got they have need of, he just was able to tell them."


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