<TITLE>11. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 Did you notice, they stayed with Him that night. And the next morning Andrew was so completely convinced till he wanted to find his brother. See? Now, that's the only way that I see for there to come a concern in the church, and back among the people, is to stay long enough until you're convinced that the program is right, and it's God, and not some mental illusion, or emotion, or--or psychology, or some workup. It's absolutely the baptism of the Holy Spirit that God promised to pour out in the last days.
That's the reason the seminaries are dropping off. They are seeing that all that they get, somehow or another it doesn't... It's always promising something that you never get to--something they promise, and just keep promising, and promising, and promising. You never get to it. "But the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call," Peter said on the day of Pentecost.
Now, it isn't just for a group way back in some other age; it's today. How far? As many as the Lord our God shall call. The signs was to follow the believer so that they'd know who they were--give an a-vindication of them that they were.

L-44 Now, Andrew become very, very concerned, because he stayed with Him all night and was convinced. And then, when he was--become convinced that He was the Christ, then he was concerned about somebody else. And I believe that every man, every woman, every boy or girl that ever stays long enough that you're convinced that it is right, and it is the Holy Ghost, you're burdened so hard in your heart that you can't stand still and let these people die like this in shame and sin. It'll grind the very heart out of you to get out here on these streets. It does any Christian to see the people wholly given over to sin: drinking, gambling, cursing, swearing, smoking. Every car you pull up behind is a woman with a cigarette in her fingers, with one of these waterhead haircuts that they're--they're using now, and all this common nonsense. And thousands of those profess to be Christians.

L-45 Don't you realize, friends (being that I'm on that), that like the first lady of the land... Did you know Jezebel was the first lady of that land too? Certainly. But Elijah called her out. She hated him, but he told her where she belonged. Actually he was her pastor. She didn't want to admit it, but he was. That's right. He told her.

L-46 Now, we see all sin, and the things the way they are, and it grinds into the heart of anyone. See little children... My wife was telling me this morning... We went up to the little church up at the other place. Brother Williams taken us up there yesterday. And she said, "Bill, it was thrilling..."
After coming on the streets and seeing the little girls, not over twelve years old, walking along with cigarettes in their hands, and boys coming from school with their arms around them, wrong place... Children... Why, the policeman ought to pick up something like that. Well, that's corruption. What? That poor little kid, what will happen to her? Out in honky-tonks, and everything else, drinking, and gambling, and carrying on with these boys, and not over twelve, fourteen years old, and their mother just as bad? That's right. And all of them belong to church.

L-47 She said, at this church out there yesterday, "It was sweet to see a bunch of little children, about eight or nine years old, all come in and go to the altar and pray, and then grab rags and go to shine off the seats so the people could come in that night." Blessed be the Name of the Lord. There's still a branch left. Somewhere there's a remnant that God will call together. All right.


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