<TITLE>14. Par 46-49</TITLE>L-46 So you see when the people shouted and spoke in tongues and so forth, and this nation has constantly called them a bunch of holy-rollers, and heretics, and everything else. You see why she's ready for judgment.
Now, the Bible says... Now, you Pentecostal people, the Bible says if you have a gift of speaking in tongues then when the unlearned comes in, and--and the first thing you know they all speak with tongues, they'll say, "You're all mad." But if there be one among you that's a prophet that will reveal the secrets of the heart, then they'll fall down and say, "Truly, God's with you."
Well, if you believe in speaking in tongues, don't you know what the furtherment of it is? Don't you know what a higher blessing is? Don't you see the Holy Spirit? What makes you speak with tongues? You do that yourself? No, sir. The Holy Ghost does it if you're sincere. Is that right? The Holy Ghost does. That's the same thing that set in the church: first, apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists. It's the Holy Spirit, the living Christ. It's not dead but alive forevermore.

L-47 They have the picture of It down here where it was--been taken. It was taken over here in California here recently. Taken... George J. Lacy of the FBI, examined It and so forth. You've seen it and everything: a Pillar of Fire. Same Pillar of Fire was took in Germany, Switzerland, and all over the world where it's been taken.
Now, what is It? Is that--how many knows that Jesus Christ was that Pillar of Fire? Well, when He was... And in Saint John 6, when He was being questioned He said about--He said Abraham about his days, He said, "Well now," said "You mean that you seen Abraham, and You're a man not over fifty years old."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Then He was that Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant, in other words, the Logos that went out of God. He was the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And that Pillar of Fire, the Logos was--was made flesh and dwelt among us. And He said, "I come from God and go to God. And after His death, burial, and resurrection, Saul--He met Saul on the road down to Damascus and struck him down with a Light. None of the rest of them saw It, but Saul saw It.

L-48 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... came out of the wilderness, bringing the children of Israel then come dwelt in a Man, Fullness of the Godhead bodily and performed these kind of signs as the Messiah. And if that same Pillar of Fire, that same Jesus, that same Spirit comes back into His Church universal, won't it do the same thing?
"He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also. Here a little while and the world seeth Me no more," He said, "yet, ye shall see for I, I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
You see what I'm trying to do, friends, is let you know that the Jesus that made the promise in the Bible is right here with you, right here now.

L-49 Now, if you'd walk up to Him, and He had on this suit that He gave me and He would say--you'd say, "Jesus, will You heal me?"
You know what He would say to you? "Well, my child, I did that." He can't do it again. If you're redeemed out of the pawn shop, how can you be redeemed the second time? He brought you out. He was wounded for your transgressions and with His stripes you were healed. See what I mean?
Your healing's already completed. Your salvation's completed. The only thing you have to do is just receive it. What does it make any difference who lays hands on you, what does this, that or the other? Everywhere you're at, just believe it. That's all. Receive it. It's God has to give it to you.
That's the reason I don't take too much time. The American people are taught the old Jewish custom of laying on of hands, which is all right, but that wasn't the Gentile way.


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