<TITLE>19. Par 81-84</TITLE>L-81 So watch what happened. They got together, and assembled themselves together, and they quoted the Scripture, repeated the Scripture back to God. Said, "Why did the heathens rage and the people imagine a vain thing?" Telepathy, fortune-telling, mind reading, all these vain things. Said, "Why did they imagine a vain thing... Truly... stretch before us Thy hand of Thy holy Child Jesus to heal."
And when they had that conference, and there was about... I guess there was three thousand converted on the day of Pentecost, and many hundreds and hundreds after that. They probably ranked in eight or ten thousand people gathered into a room to pray. And when they did, and praying all with one accord, all the same time, the Bible said that the building was shook where they were assembled together. The answer come back, and the Bible said they preached the Word of God with boldness.
Some people are afraid to preach the Word. They'd be excommunicated from their church, their organization. They're afraid of it. Then we need another conference, Acts 4 conference. Are you afraid of what somebody's going to say? As long as God said it, stay with it; live by it, die by it. That's right. Then you'll rise by it--the only thing you will do, the only way you can rise.

L-82 A conference. What we need is conference. "Come let us reason together," saith God. "If My first church would..." God would come in the room tonight and say, "If I ordained My first church and they had the blessing of Pentecost upon them..." And what they did, they went forth and showed the signs of the resurrection. Let's come and reason together why we're not having that tonight in our Pentecostal groups, in our Methodist groups, and our Baptist groups, and our Presbyterian groups. What's the matter? There's something wrong. So let's come reason together.
How could we reason it? With the Methodists? With the Baptists? With the Presbyterian? No, sir. We can only reason it by God's Word. And the first church was filled with the Holy Spirit, went forth in great signs and wonders. The life of Jesus Christ projected itself in the life of every one of those people. Let's come... why...

L-83 "Let's reason together," saith the Lord. "Let's come and reason. Though your sins (your unbelief) be like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they'll be white like wool. I'll give you a revival. I'll restore back all the years the caterpillar has eaten, the locusts eaten. (What the Lutheran left, the Methodist eaten. What the Methodist left, the Baptist eaten. What the Baptist left, the Pentecostal eaten.) But I will restore," said the Lord.
It's a guarantee of restoring, that's one thing. God promised it in Joel 2. "Let's come reason together." What one eat down and left, the other one took it on down, till it's become a stump. The Pentecostal, the real Pentecostal church, the real Pentecostal people, the real Pentecostal experience has begin... it's historical thing.

L-84 Now, how could I stand and teach you theology? What good would it do me to tell you that God one time healed the sick, and made the cripples to walk and the blind to see; and poured out His Spirit, and they had discernment of spirit, and done all these things; and the sign of the Messiah, the resurrection, followed them down through a church age; and then tell you those days were past? What good does a historical God do, if He isn't the same God today?
What good would it so to give your canary bird vitamins to make good feathers and strong wing bones, and keep him in a cage? What good is a school of theology, if you can't let the person know that God still is God? If He's just a historical thing, He's past. But He's not dead; He's alive forevermore. He's here now. He's Christ. Certainly.


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