<TITLE>22. Par 171-178</TITLE>L-171 Man, in the midst of all of it though, is forced to make a decision. They were forced to make a decision when Christ was here on earth, because He proved to them He was the Messiah. Is that right? And they were forced, and what did they call Him? Beelzebub, a fortuneteller. Then His--by His sign, Seal, at Easter, God proved it, that He raised Him up from the dead. After all these other things, He raised Him from the dead.
Now, the church that claims to have the Holy Ghost, God's proof of it, that you've passed from death unto Life, because the old things has passed away, and things have become new to you. That's God's proof of the resurrection. You're not like you used to be; you're changed. Where you used to doubt God's Word; every Word God's Word speaks, you say, "Amen." See, there's something happened to you. That's just the first form of the resurrection, the Spirit on the inside.

L-173 Now, Pentecost... After Pentecost, when these people received the Holy Ghost, man was forced again to make a decision, "Is that of God or isn't it of God?" And what did they say? "They are heretics. That's crazy. They're in delusion." Even Agrippa told Paul, "You're mad." "Mad" means "crazy."
And what did Paul say? "In the way that's called heresy, that's the way I worship God." He had the Easter Seal. He had been there when something happened. I'm glad to join hands with him this morning in heart, and say, "Paul..." Why? We'd have to preach the same Word. Paul commanded them to be baptized over in Jesus' Name, after they'd been baptized other words. He said, "If an angel from heaven said anything else, let him be accursed." He preached Divine Healing. He preached the power of the resurrection. He preached Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Visions, and powers, and manifestations of the Spirit followed him.

L-175 You'll have to have the same Message, the same thing, not a theology, not some church doings, but the power of God, Pentecost, and the same Seal. The Seal of the Holy Ghost, God's true Easter Seal is a man's credentials. Right. It's your birthrights. It's a credential that you have passed from death unto Life, and God is working through you the same way He did the Lord Jesus, because it's your credential. "These signs shall follow them that believe. Go ye into all the world," after Easter, after the Pentecost, after the Seal of Easter was given, of the resurrection. What was it? The Life that was in Christ that was raised up, has come and quickened His Church, and lives in the Church to do the same signs.

L-176 I hope it don't go over your head. I hope I'm not keeping you so long that you--you won't--won't get the joy of what I mean. See? I know it's hard, you people standing. Please, just--just a few minutes; try if you can. See, I want you to get this point, friend. I want you to see what's in my heart, what's been here thirty-one years, since I laid that little cornerstone yonder on the corner. See, there's the truth; I've tried to stand for it. There's been all kinds of things went out from it; that's true; but it's always been that way.

L-177 I was reading it on Martin Luther, said, "It was a hard thing to believe that he could protest the Catholic church and get by with it. That was a great thing. But the greatest thing, that how he could hold his head level above an the fanaticism that followed his revival, that could stay true in the Bible." Say what God says and say nothing else; just stay right with it; walk in the straight, precise decision of God. Instead... If God decides it to be this way, let's stay right with it. That's His decision. Amen. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

L-178 The--the Seal of Pentecost is the believer's credentials that he's passed from death unto Life, because he has received the Pentecostal blessing, God's Easter Seal to His Son. He sealed His first Son with the Holy Ghost. Is that right? True. And He sealed all of His other sons with the Holy Ghost.


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