<TITLE>14. Par 54-56</TITLE>L-54 How much different it was from Paul. Paul said, "I never come to you with wisdom of men, enticing words, that your faith would be built upon the wisdom of men, but I come to you with the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, that your faith could be built in God." Amen. Today they want to make an educational school out of it: reading, writing and arithmetic.
When I got to Africa amongst my colored brethren, what did they know? Reading, writing, and arithmetic, they had no business for that. That's the reason when they seen a real true moving, God come into the midst of the people, thirty thousand accepted Christ at one altar call: Durban, South Africa. The book gives it there. See? That's right.
Bombay, India, there's probably five hundred thousand people that attended the meeting. Hard to tell how many come at one time. It's not reading, writing, and arithmetic. You don't get men to God with that. It's the Gospel. The Gospel never come by word only, but through the power and manifestations of the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe." Takes more than just teaching a word; it takes a manifestation of that word to make these signs follow (That's right.), God manifesting Himself.

L-55 Somebody said, "Well, I want you do this, want you do that?" Well, brother, I would rather be out there making a mistake trying to do something right than I would be trying to rob people from the last hope that they have. I make a mistake... I prayed for hundreds of people that never got well. But I'd rather be showing them people a God, and a Bible, and a Christ that does heal than to try to rob them from the last chance they have of ever being well.
Say you love humanity and keep those things from them, be like giving, trying to give milk to a dying baby and take it away from him. It's not right. There's something wrong. Reason they do it is by hybrid, because they accept it their church will put them out for it. Right, hybrid... Yes, the Word... And don't mix the Word with nothing.

L-56 You know, Satan tried that on Jesus one time. Oh, yes. One time there came One from heaven to change this hybrid condition. So as he tempted Eve, he also tempted Jesus, got Him up there on top the mountain. He said, "Now, if Thou be the Son of God, I want you to perform a miracle so I can see you do it." That same old devil lives today, just in other people. That same Spirit of Christ lives today only in other peoples. You see? That's right. The man goes but the Spirit never does.
So then he took Him up on top the mountain, He said, "Now, if You be the Son of God," tempted Him by the Word, said, "It's written in the Bible, 'He will give His Angels charge concerning you, less any time you dash their foot against a stone, bear thee up.'" See, part of the Word...
But He didn't dash His foot against a stone. So He said, "And it's also written." Amen.


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