<TITLE>16. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 Along come Pentecost with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Exactly right. But now, we want to stop the Pentecostal church just a minute. Each of those organized and died in their tracks. Now, I want you to look, you who putting down the Scriptures, the 4th and 5th verse: After he had called him by justification, sanctified him through blood of the covenant, give him His own life, in 17th chapter, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, now what comes next in Israel, some of you Bible scholars? The placing of a son.
In the Old Testament when a son was borned into the family, he was a son, but he was not heir yet. See, the father didn't know what that boy would be (Is that right?), so he had a tutor over him to raise him to a certain age and then he manifests the placing of a son. God did the same thing in Revelat... in Matthew the 17th chapter.
He took Peter, James, and John, went up on a high mountain (I preached on that once here.)... upon a high mountain and was transfigured before them. What was he doing? He was showing the placing of a son.

L-53 Now notice, in the Old Testament they had... the son was born. He was a son, but he had a tutor to watch him, to see how he come along. And he... The father always put the best teacher he could to his son. Any father would. And so the--the tutor watched the son. And if the son was just a renegade, he didn't pay no attention, he wouldn't listen, he was still a son, 'cause he was born, and he's a son, but he never had any inheritance.
Please brethren, put on the spiritual thinking now, and sisters. He never had any inheritance, yet he was a son. Father taken care of him. That's that group back there in the wilderness. See? He had a... He was a son, truly, but he never had any inheritance.
And then the tutor would come up before the father and he'd say, "How's my son doing?" How he must have blushed at that, "See he... he... a... he isn't doing too good." See. He hired a man that was just and honest that... not a straw in his hat, or a feather as we call it, but he was telling the truth. "Your son's not doing too good. He won't listen. I can't teach him nothing."
"All right." He never got any inheritance.

L-54 Or what if he come and said, I wonder today, that when God did the same thing to Abraham's seed, his children here... When the tutor... Who is our Tutor? The bishop, the district presbyter? Who is it? The Holy Ghost. He don't pull no punches; he tells the father exactly what's going on.
He comes up and said, "How's my children getting along down there?"
"Oh, Father... all Your daughters have cut their hair. They're wearing make-up. They're acting like the world. They put on immoral clothes, clothes that look like men; they call them pedal-pushers and slacks. And Your women, Your daughters, are just climbing right into that... And Father, the bad thing, Your sons, Your preachers, permit it. Oh yes, sure, they permit it (all the things that You taught), because they're afraid." How the Father must feel!
He can't take them any farther, they're His children, He has to take care of them, but what a burden-child that is!
"Well, why don't they do it?"
"Well they made themself an organization and kind of...?... themself together like they did to build the tower of Babel.
"Yes," Father says, "it'll come to the same kind of an end too. See?


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