<TITLE>07. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 Seven days going without finding the real living God. We've run off on little isms. God gave Luther justification; he run off with it. He gave Wesley sanctification; he run off with it. He left off--Pentecostal people speak in tongues, and they run off with it. God wants to call us together in a unity of power to bring back the fullness of the Holy Ghost into the Church again, with all the spiritual gifts in operation in every local body.
Yes, seven days without God, led them into a desert. It's the same thing now. His fruit's dried up. I imagine as that--as they moved out over the hill from the green valleys and things, they begin to see the--the places kindy drying up.

L-28 You know, everybody wants a hilltop experience, and they never want to take the valley. Everybody, the Pentecostal church too. Every night, if you're not shouting, dancing, jumping up-and-down, speaking in tongues, and running around over the floor or something another, you didn't have any kind of a meeting.
Well, you know it's all right to be on the mountain top, that's good. But let me tell you; you--you're fruits will freeze up there at night. And when the cold spell comes, you'll lose all your fruit. That's what's happened now. We put too much on mountain-top experiences of dancing, and shaking, and jumping around, instead of all night prayer meetings, down in the valley of decision. Where you have to come down there and meet God and really pour out your life until something takes place.
We have let the--we've growed fruits up there, but the freeze kills it. That's right. Every time it comes a little cool spell, you've got nothing to rest upon. When the emotion or the--dies down, then the shout's all gone, the noises cease, then they're--where you at? The temptation comes along, then you can't take it.

L-29 What we need is get down to that grinding place, down there in that valley, dig out. That's exactly right. It's where the Church needs to be tonight.
Well, I can imagine they was noticing the green life beginning to... You say, "Green?" Yes. We might be green but we got life anyhow. That's... Yeah.
Everybody say, "Well, that bunch of Pentecostal preachers, some of them..."
I was at a school not long ago, and my son told some students, he said, "Well, I'm from the Southwestern Bible school myself."
Said, "If you can read and write, you're better off than that bunch over there." Oh, my! Well say, "Well, they're the greenest bunch I ever seen."
Oh, brother. We might be green, but we got--we're flexible. Anything that isn't green will--you pull it a little bit and you will break it.

L-30 That's what's the matter today with too many people's experiences: too dry and stiff. We need something flexible so it can--the wind comes down, it can blow it, and rush it around, and pull it around, and make it grow, get life into it. I'd rather be a little green and be flexible to the Holy Spirit, so I can give to it instead of standing making a mournful noise, like a funeral service, when it's blowing across me. Saying, "Days of miracles is past. No such a thing as Divine healing." That's a funeral service.
Oh, them young trees, though, when they're flexible and can give to the Spirit, and the Spirit begin to move them like a rushing wind, filling them full of God's goodness. Oh, that's the kind of a life. It may be a green bunch, but it--yes, it's a bunch that's got life in it. That's good. And if anything isn't--it hasn't got life in it, it's dead. That's scientifically known that it's dead.


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