<TITLE>17. Par 72-77</TITLE>L-72 Now, that's the truth. Don't get mad at me. That's the Word of the Lord. Oh, what we need's a conference in Pentecost. Exactly right. Back to a Pentecostal conference.
We find out Moses stood there till God give him orders. And when he come out from behind that rock, I'd imagine him saying, "Let's go forward."
Some of them said, "Forward to what?"
"Just keep moving, that's all." When his foot struck the water, the Red Sea moved back and the dry land come across. And he walked across on dry land, 'cause he had a conference with God.

L-73 Oh, there's many conferences we could speak about. There was a conference of the, of the fiery furnace, there was the conference in the lion's den. We've had many conferences.

L-74 Let's get to another one. It's called the Gethsemane conference. There was a terrible conference. He didn't have to die a young man. He didn't have to do it. But when He seen lost humanity in its condition, said, "Not My will but Thine be done." Angels come and ministered to Him. That's what...
Then after His death, burial, and resurrection, there had to be another conference: how the Christian church should be run. Whether it should be run by bishops, or whether it should be run by popes, or how it should be run. So Jesus told them in Luke 24:49, "Just wait up there at the city of Jerusalem. I'm going up to have a conference with the Father. I'll send you word down after while, but you wait there till. I'll tell you how it's to be run." Whether Peter is to be the first pope or not, whether we're going to have bishops and archbishops and district presbyters and everything else.
"How're we going to do it? We'll wait and find out."
And they had what they call the Pentecostal conference. They climbed them little outside steps up, and went up into the upper room where a hundred and twenty people gathered; a little grease candle burning. They didn't eat and drink for ten days, waiting. What's the returns of the conference? It was quite a long one. And they had ten days' waiting, and after a while the returns came. Oh, yes.

L-75 There wasn't a priest come up the road with his collar turned around and said, "Now, we're going to take the first communion. You lick out your tongue and I'll give you the wafer, and I'll drink the wine." Wouldn't that be...? Neither was there a preacher come up the road and said, "Give us the right hand of fellowship. We'll put your name on the book and try you six months on probation." Nope. That's man's conferences. That's the way they do at the councils and conference.

L-76 What happened? When the conference return came, they were all in one place and one accord, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the room where they were setting. Cloven tongues set upon them like fire, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and begin to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. That was the returns from general headquarters. The Holy Spirit was to lead the church, not man-made dogmas, but the Holy Spirit. That was the Pentecostal conference.

L-77 And I think all the way from Martin Luther to Pentecost ought to go back and have a conference again, find out, it's the Holy Spirit that's to lead the church--not dogmas, and creeds, and "hail Marys" and apostle's creed. I want you to find me the apostle's creed in the Bible. There's no such a thing; but yet we bow down to it, and say it, and just as... That's lodge joiners; that ain't Christians.


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