<TITLE>10. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 But the trouble with us, we don't look to our Conqueror. We look to our presbyter. We look to some great evangelist. Somebody when... We see what they say about it, yes, sir. We--we--we look to each other. But we're commanded to look to Him. We look to say, now if a there's something or another going on, "Well, the Lord did a certain thing; He healed somebody. He done something else like that." But...?... now, we'd say, "Let's see what Doctor Jones says about it. If our church don't believe that, we--we will not receive it." See? You're looking to what the presbyter says. You're looking to what the bishop says. Then you'll never see Christ.
When they heard that Jesus had raised from the dead and appeared among them like that, they didn't stand and look at one another; they looked to Him. They seen His scars; they seen His power; they seen Him do the miracles that He did before He was dead; and they knowed it was their living God. And they didn't look to one another, neither did they ask anybody to look to them.
But today, stuffed shirts come out. "I'm Doctor so and so with such and such a education. I'm Ph.D., LL.D., Q.S.T.," and all these other kind of things, and where's Christ in all of it? What have we got? A morgue. And worshipping a dead Christ in a tomb. We don't worship a dead Christ in a tomb, the living church, the church of the living God. We worship a resurrected Conqueror, Who conquered our unbelief and all those creeds, and slammed them beneath His feet, and said, "I am yours and you are Mine." Amen. "I'm alive forevermore." That's the great Conqueror. That's the One. That's the One my faith is looking at.

L-31 What we want to do today is don't look towards those poor mournful garlic eaters back there, back in the wilderness, wanting the flesh pots of Egypt, were wearing shorts and dresses and painted lips, and cutting their hair, and denying the power of God. Let them alone. They'll perish there in the wilderness. Let us follow our great Joshua. (Hallelujah.), our Leader. Don't ask no questions; just keep in step; that's all. Just keep moving on. Don't look back to them; don't pay any attention to them. If they want to stay in Egypt and thirst for the things of the world, and all their old movie stars and mimics and everything, let them go on. We look to Jesus. We look to our Joshua.
We're not looking to a thirsting. The trouble of it today; you say, "Now, wait, you shouldn't drink. You shouldn't go to picture shows. You shouldn't do this; you shouldn't... Women shouldn't cut their hair. They shouldn't wear shorts." Oh, I imagine if somebody's ever got over in the other land and ever eat some of the grapes from Canaan, and eat some of the pomegranates, and some of the fine honey over there, they don't want any more garlic of the world.

L-32 The thing of it is, we just feed them on old garlic and stuff and let them thirst and bellyache back, excuse that expression, that's not right in the--in the pulpit. But go on back. If they want to go for the world, let them go on back. We're going forward. We're going to follow our... Not just back on Acts 2:4 wander around back there over that same ground. What did they do? They stayed there forty years and died there. Right back over the same old thing, all the time. That's all right, Acts 2:4 is part of it. But the thing of it is, He said one day to His... "Rise, you've been on this mountain for forty years; turn north; cross Jordan yonder, the separation, for there's more than this mountain for you." There's more than Acts 2:4 for you. Every promise in the Book belongs to the church. And God's waiting for His church to rise and receive it.


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