<TITLE>19. Par 80-83</TITLE>L-80 We are Pentecostal, or are we? The next thing, if we're Pentecostals, let's be Pentecostals. If the message is right, get in it. If it isn't, get out of it, and find what is right. Sure. If God be God, serve Him. But you can't serve God and mammon at the same time. Let's serve God. Be convinced, and then you'll be concerned. Then the church will really go to growing, 'cause you'll go out and get everybody you can to bring them in.
But as long as you just go round and say, "Well, that's the preacher's job..." It isn't the preacher's job; it's everybody's job. Right. Every borned again Christian has that same Spirit in them. The preacher might be gifted, but that's just a gift of the Holy Ghost, not the Holy Ghost, a gift of the Holy Ghost.
Preachers are called, prophets, and teachers, and evangelists, and pastors, and so forth. They have received the Holy Ghost, and then a gift to do these things with it. But God don't have any little bitty children or great big children. They're all children to Him. That's exactly right. And your rightly position is setting right now in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, with every power.

L-81 You say, "Brother Branham, I'm the least in the church. I'm just a little bitty fellow." But remember, when He ascended on high... See, you're raised with Him; you're in the body; and you're with Christ right now, seated in heavenly places. If you're the skin on the bottom of the feet, every devil's underneath you. That's right. That's exactly right. The church... Where the head is, the body's with it. And if we be buried, died, buried in Christ, then we're raised with Him in His resurrection, and set in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, with every fire of hell under us. Amen. Right. No matter how little you are, every devil's under you.
Why? Our great conqueror has conquered every sin, every thing, every sickness, every--even death itself. That's right. We're more than conquerors in Him. Only thing, we're seated with Him at His throne, looking to Him as He looks over... The Father... That's it. It's there. All right.

L-82 Shamgar got enough of it. He said, "I am convinced that He's God. I am concerned with my family." You know what he did? He taken that ox-goad, and jumped out there in the middle of the road, and slew six hundred Philistines. You know what an ox-goad is? Why, it's a stick about, oh, I guess about six, seven foot long, maybe not that long, with a little piece of brass on the end of it, or something, or iron. And when the plow gets stopped up, sometimes they rake the plow with it like that, and then they punch the goad to the ox, like that: "Hurry up, hurry on, jump along," like that.
With a stick in his hand, and he--not nothing on but just his overalls, it was, farming clothes, and here these Philistines was dressed in helmet and armor with spear. And that one little Jew... He never only routed, but he slew. Amen. How did that stick hold up? The first rap he took across a Philistine's head with armor on about like that, that ox-goad went in fifty pieces. But he knocked one one way, and one the other, like that, until he knocked the whole bunch of them down and killed them. Why? Because he was convinced. Amen. And he was concerned.

L-83 A man would fight for his family like that, under circumstances like that, what ought the church of the living God to fight with the baptism?
Shamgar had a ox-goad. You've got the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Oh, my. (We don't want four hours tonight, so we better move along.) All right. Yes, sir.


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