<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 Now, today when you speak of Divine healing, it's a rather a touchy thing amongst many of the churches. Which I... In our--in America, and many of you Presbyterians know, there's a great research on and--and papers out across the nation and so forth, that we must return back (the Presbyterian church) to the early apostolic teaching of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking with other tongues, having healing services and so forth in the meetings.
Many of the great churches in the States are trying to turn back to that program. The great Billy Graham in his statement recently in a sermon, said, "We cannot ignore the pentecostal church any longer." Said, "Because that it's one of the great growing churches."
Which the Pentecostal church is outgrowing all churches put together, the Pentecostal organizations. "Our Sunday Visitor," the Catholic paper, last year stated that the Catholic church universally announced one million converts last night--last year. But the Pentecostal church registered one million five hundred thousand converts last year in itself. So it outdoes all the churches, because of it's evangelistic association around the world. And, of course, that is ministers who are--are well known and--and how many of the others that we know nothing of.

L-12 Now, but Pentecost is not a--an organization. Pentecost is an experience that goes to any believer. Pentecostal cannot be organized. Pentecost is an experience.
It goes to the Anglican church, and to the United church and to the Methodist, and the Baptist, and the Presbyterians. "Whosoever will may come." It's a restoration back to the apostolic message, which the Catholic church itself started one time.
The Catholic church, the early Catholic church was a pentecostal church. And then, 'course it made it's organization in the third hundred years after the... at the--at the Nicaea Council, it formed in what they call the organization of the great universal Christian church.
And from there then came Martin Luther, and John Wesley, and oh, on, so forth on down, till we're nine hundred and something different organizations now. But the background of all Christianity is Pentecost. And if that was God's idea of a Church first, God is infallible and cannot change. It's His idea of the Church today.

L-13 And that's an experience that any man can have that belongs to any of those organizations. He can have the same experience in the organization that he's in. The main thing is just receive the experience.
Now, further we would like to say, that each night the boys came down, and my son mainly, and they give the people a prayer card. He takes the prayer cards, and stands before you, and mixes them all up. And gives anybody a prayer card that wants one.
Now, try to be here tomorrow night not later than seven-thirty, so we won't interrupt the services. That night then we come, we have no way where we're going to call. We don't know of where it might be, we might start from one to fifteen, twenty. Or maybe start from twenty backwards. Or start from fifty and come this way, that way, just jingle them up together so people won't rally and say, "Now, if I haven't got number... If I haven't got ninety-five to a hundred, I want to... I don't want it." See? But you don't know where it's going to be called from. We wait till we get there.


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