<TITLE>15. Par 57-59</TITLE>L-57 And he took a--and looked and he saw a vision. He thought, "Well now, this is it." The Spirit of the message... Now, what did he see? Now, did he just say, "Oh, Jehoram. You need another degree. And I tell you, Jehoshaphat, you've got in a little trouble (See?), you ought to go away and study a while longer; because I tell you, you just don't know how to--to do these things. That--don't know how to lead an army or something." It wasn't that. He didn't do that.
He said, "I tell you what you ought to do. You ought to polish up your men. They're not wearing the right kind of uniforms. That's what it is. You ought to make all your clergy col--turn their collar around, so they look like a clergyman. You see?"
Oh, it'll be in Pentecost pretty soon. Yes, it'll soon--right in it. It ha... The Catholic church was the first Pentecostal church remember. That's exactly right. Now, you--some of you historians deny that. And give Pentecost another hundred and fifty years, it'll be farther away than the Pentecostal church is, at the rate it's going now. That's right.
Oh, yes. The Catholic church begin at Pentecost. Then they organized it and got the big societies in there that wanted to make this and that. And the Nicolaitane conquer the laity and took the--and took the power away from the laity out there. And the Holy Ghost can't come out there. It has to all be on here, what one fellow says, that's all of it. The Holy Ghost dwells in the whole body of Christ... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-58 The Holy Spirit run the Church, why, they got the fruits all dried up. And you see where it's at now. Well, Pentecostal hit the same trail. Right down the same way. So there it is.
Now, we find out when the Spirit come on... What was the vision of the--the Spirit gave to the prophet? What did he say? He didn't say, "Now, take all your soldiers out and school them over again, that when they go to get up on the mountain top, they will know more about what to do. Teach them some more theology. They ought to polish up a little bit. They ought to carry a longer knife or something like that. Or they ought to wear a different uniform." No, he didn't say that.
He said, "Get to digging. Get out here in this desert. Your people once before crossed this desert, and they wanted a--a theology on Mount Sinai." God gave it to them after grace had done give them a--a prophet, and a--and a Pillar of Fire and everything. But they wanted something they had to fuss about. So He let them stay out there in the wilderness till the old fighters all died out.

L-59 He said, "They was out there one time perishing in the same way that you are. Now there's channels out there. There is plenty of channels where that Rock still lays in the wilderness yonder." But said, "You got to dig out a lot of stuff."
That's the vision tonight brother. It ain't start a new organization. Just dig out what's in it. That's right. The first thing that old rotten log of organization, throw it out of the channel. The channels of God's blessings is all stopped up tonight. Organization logs laying in them.
Then another log's laying out there called--called the "No such a thing as the Holy Spirit." If you dig down and strike that log, throw it out. "There's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that's just for the disciples only." Dig it out. "The Holy Ghost was just for the apostles."
Dr. Simon Peter said, on the day of Pentecost, "It's for you, and for your children, or them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."


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