<TITLE>10. Par 32-34</TITLE>L-32 Like the Blood. Somebody says, "Well, we--we... I tell you, we--we do this and do that, and we have creeds, and we try to educate people to Christ, we try to denominate them to Christ." We're just fighting the wind; it's no good. There's only one way to Christ; that's through the Blood. That's God's program to begin with, and He cannot change. We come through Christ by the Blood. And after receiving the Blood we--the chemistry of the Blood to take away our sins and clean us from our iniquity, then we receive the Spirit that's in the Blood which is the Holy Ghost that comes back upon us and makes us sons and daughters of God. That's right. Then you're new creatures in Christ. Then you have the same experience they had at the beginning. You live the same kind of life, and do the same kind of works that they did at the beginning. Yeah, Exodus 19.

L-33 Then the Bible said it's eleven day's journey from Mount Sinai to Kadesh. Eleven days after they received their indocumate of theology, their works they wanted to do, they made the greatest mistake they ever did make. At Kadesh is where they doubted God's Word. From the time they was following in line with God until they got indocumated, and then when they did, they made their fatal mistake to believe that God's Word was true.
They took their organizations, the twelve different tribes sent out a representative to go over and spy out the land. Two of them went over and brought back evidence. They brought one evidence that it was a good land. Joshua and Caleb packed this bunch of grapes, perhaps, on their shoulder. Everybody tasted said, "Um my, it's so good, wonderful." But when they come back before the congregation, they said, "The opposition's too great; we just can't do it. There's no need of us trying it. Why, we look like grasshoppers up the side of them big educational giants out yonder, those great bishops and doctors of divinity. There's only one thing, how could our little two--two years of school, our little grammar school education ever compare with Doctor, Ph.D., L--double L.D., S.Q.T., all these other; how will we ever do that with these great big fellows?" That isn't it. God promised the land. Education has nothing to do with it.

L-34 God promised the Holy Ghost to whosoever will, let him come. You don't know split beans from coffee, what difference does it make? If you can't say your ABC's, what difference does it make, as long as you've received an experience.
When Peter and James was caught up--or John at the Gate Beautiful, where they'd made the man to walk that was crippled, made him to walk, was lame from his mother's womb... The Bible said they were ignorant and unlearned men, but yet they taken heed that they had been with Jesus. That's the qualification of a real Pentecostal, and not how much degrees you have, how much a degree that you have took, a Bachelor of Art, or whether you're Ph.D. or LL.D. or whatever it is, that has nothing to do with it. Is let people know that you've been with Jesus Christ. Let people know that there's something behind there that's got your soul on fire. That's Pentecost. Sometimes I see the way the church is getting...
I left the Baptist church to become a Pentecostal. I left it on the account of I knowed they had something. But when I get over here, it's as tightly organized as the Baptist was--worse. That's right.


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