<TITLE>19. Par 72-75</TITLE>L-72 I can tell you; let every whiskey drinker and cigarette smoker lay down their cigarettes, and tobacco, and whiskey for one day across America, and take that money. It'll give every man a five room home that's a poor man and a automobile. More spent last year for whiskey than there was for food. Then how about Coca-cola's, chewing gum, and the other luxuries that we live in? Oh, we're... You don't understand what a condition.
But here, "We just thought Christ was along." What have we done? Now, in the last days when these things has showed up we begin to wonder, "Where is He at? Where's He at?" We have searched through the Baptist revival; we don't see Him like He was on--back there. We look through the Methodist, and we don't find Him. We go back another day to the Lutheran; we don't find Him. We go back to the Catholic; we don't find Him.
Where did we lose Him at? Where Mary and Joseph found Him, that's where we'll find Him. They left Him at the feast of Pentecost. There's where we'll find Him again, right at the feast of Pentecost. Hallelujah. Glory.
You may think I am crazy. Maybe I am. If I am, leave me alone. I feel better this a way. I got more assurance this a way.

L-73 Yes, where did they leave Him? At the feast of Pentecost. Where did the church leave Christ? At Pentecost. Then come the Catholic church; then come the Lutheran church, all organizations. Then come the Wesleyan church, all organizations, Baptist church, all organizations. And the Pentecost has done the same thing. What are we doing? Laying up on the shelf just exactly like the rest of them did.
Let's rise and shake ourselves. Let's go back to Pentecostal feast and get away from all this educational program.
I'm not trying to support my ignorance, but I'm trying to tell you the Word of God. Peter couldn't write his own name, but it pleased Jesus to give him the keys to the Kingdom because of his revelation. That is right, my brethren. That's true.

L-74 Where did they find Him? Back at the Pentecostal feast. And there's where you Methodists will find Him; that's where you Baptists will find Him; that's where you Lutheran will find Him; that's where you Catholics will find Him. You'll never find Him amongst your kindred churches.
All you people taking your letter from the Methodist going over to the Baptist, He won't be there. You're taking it from the Baptists, and all of you going back to the Catholic. You'll never find Him there. Go back where the church left Him at the feast of Pentecost when the Holy Ghost came from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, filled all the house where they were setting; and cloven tongues set up on them like fire. There's where you'll miss Him. There's where you left Him. That's where we must go back and pick Him up.

L-75 Listen, in closing. Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And what did that Vine... That vine doesn't bear any fruit. The branch in the vine bears the fruit. Did you ever see a vine bearing grapes? No, you saw the branches in the vine bearing grapes.
Now, let's--let's reason something. If that Vine, which is Christ, Saint John 15th chapter. You believe that, don't you? Well, if that first Vine brought out a--first Vine brought out a branch and it was a Pentecostal branch, and behind this branch they wrote the Book of Acts... Is that right, brethren? If that Vine ever puts forth another branch, it'll be a Pentecostal branch that'll write a Book of Acts behind it.


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