<TITLE>21. Par 88-92</TITLE>L-88 Intellectual... You churches sometimes voting for your pastor, or however you do it... They do it like the Baptist churches, and so forth, and Presbyterians, and Methodists, and Pentecostals too, of course. You want your pastor... You try to find some great intellectual guy, so you can say to your neighbor over here, "You see, our guy's got... Our pastor's got a college education." See? We... You--you pick a man like that.

L-89 If I wanted a man to teach my children, to leave them under his tutorship, and things like that, and my brother, my mother, and someone that I'm expecting to meet over on the other land, I'd rather have a man that didn't know his abc's when it comes to the intellectual standpoint. I'd rather he'd know Christ (That's right.) as Saviour. Yes, sir. Whether he could preach, or stand up and slobber and everything else, wouldn't make me no difference. If he wore overalls in the pulpit, what difference does that make? Trouble of it is, we got too dressy, and fashion, and... Pentecostals. We just...
It's just all of us. We're--we're just going to be consumed if we don't do something about this. We need prayer meetings. We need back to the power of God. Yes, sir. And just say a little thing about it, oh, my goodness. The people just think that's horrible. "Oh, my. Wouldn't want him in my church saying things like that." See? That's it. What's the matter?
It goes to show there's something's wrong inside. This is God's Word. This is His plan. We're presuming we're all right, but I wonder if--wonder what God says about it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's awful to say that, but it's right. Yes, sir.

L-90 The day of Pentecost they waited till they had Scriptural authority. That's right. 'Fore they claimed anything, they knowed they had it. They didn't say--say, "Well, I--I felt a little sensation." They felt it, saw it, and everything else. They knowed it was there. They seen it moving in them, working in them, talking through them, everything. It was there. They didn't have to presume nothing. It was there talking for Itself.
And a man, when he's borned again of the Spirit of God is the same thing today. You don't presume. "I--I believe we received the Holy Ghost when we believe."

L-91 No, you didn't. You don't... You could do it, but just because you believed... If God didn't fill you with the Holy Ghost, then He hasn't vindicated you yet. You haven't got it. See? That's right. Don't presume you've got it. Be sure of that thing. You don't want to take a chance on it. No, 'cause you'll be lost. Just don't presume. Just stay... Go, stay till it's over with. Today we take it by a creed or by some kind of a sensation.

L-92 I heard someone... As I was saying at the beginning of my message, back here a few days ago I was in a place, and some of them said, "Now, you have to wear Elijah's garment." My, there's more different garments, and--and touch, and handle, and sensations I ever heard in my life.
Said, "Now, just let it go blank, go blank. Hold your head back (good, honest people), go blank. Don't think of nothing. Just--just--just let your mind go completely blank now. Now say, 'I believe God. Oh, I believe you're going to give me the--the Elijah's garment.'"
I don't want Elijah's garment; I want the Holy Ghost. I want to come upon the basis of this Word. I want to come with--just with the knowledge (See?), that I come upon God, believing that... I can't be covered with Elijah's garment. I want to be covered with the garment of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness. Sure. That's the garment we want. Yes, sir.
Say then, "We have it. We..." And people go believing that. Say, "Well, I presume now that I got it" I had a funny feeling," you see? Or, "I--I really did. I... Cold chills run all over me." Yeah. Some of them said, "Well, it even made me cry." I did at my mother's funeral, but still, that didn't have anything to do with that, the Holy Ghost.


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