<TITLE>22. Par 77-79</TITLE>L-77 Lick out your tongue, take a little wafer that some man-made, and the priest drinks the wine, say, "I took the holy communion," the holy eucharist, which means the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost didn't come with a wafer; It come like a sound from heaven, like a rushing mighty wind, that filled all the house where they were sitting. That's right. See? That's uncertain. I can't read that in the Bible. But when I hear It come from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, that's it. That's...
Jesus said, "Wait up there at the Jerusalem now. Don't you start preaching and don't you... I don't care how much experience you got, and how many seminaries you've went through, and how far you're graduated, you wait up there until..."
"Until what? Till we get our Bachelor of Art degree?"
"No, sir. Wait until..."
"Two days?"
"Until you're endued with power from on high. And then (and not before) will you be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, Judaea, and Bloomington, Illinois." Anywhere--the utmost parts of the earth. That's the gospel.

L-78 And so they said, "Now, we'll go up and see if the bishop comes up." That's what we do today. "Oh, we'll find out if the priest gives us--confirms us." That was uncertain sound. I don't know nothing about that. I'm like David: "Take that old armor off of me."
"Well, if you'll go to school and learn..."
I--I don't know nothing about that either. See, I don't know nothing about that. The Bible don't speak anything about that. I never see anything in the Bible about that.
"Well, now listen. If you will confess with your lips that Jesus is the Christ and take Him, you have received the Holy Ghost, 'cause the minute that you believe that Jesus is the Christ, you have the Holy Ghost." That's a uncertain sound. That's right.
Paul said, after he see the people even was saved, and shouting and jumping up-and-down, he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" Acts 19:5. Oh, yes, he did. And he said, "If a angel from heaven (let alone a preacher), if a angel from heaven preach any other Gospel to you than this which I've already preached, let him be accursed." There's no uncertain sound about that. That's the Bible. Certainly.

L-79 And when they were all up there in one place and one accord and suddenly there came--not an uncertain sound, no--but a certain sound came, and it filled all the house where they were setting. Cloven tongues sat upon them to fulfill Isaiah 28:19's prophecy, that the Holy Ghost sat upon them, and they all begin to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Just a moment. Hebrews 13:8 said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
"He's partially the same yesterday, today, and forever..." He is the same: no uncertainty about that.
In closing I might say this: (I keep you too long, I know I do) but oh, you poor sleepy heads that have to get out and... When they used to pray all night long and... It's hard now. Please don't think I'm hurting you: I'm just following what He says tell me... 'cause I don't know what to say. I ain't got gumption enough to say it, but I just got gumption enough to say what He says say. It's up to you. See?


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