<TITLE>13. Par 55-59</TITLE>L-55 Unbeliever, I'd like for you to see this. Not altogether does everybody have to see it. Nobody saw that star but them three men. He passed over every observatory, a real living evidence, an ensign to lead them to Christ. Nobody seen it but them.
"A little while and the world sees Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you always, even to the end of the world," The Ensign, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, God's true Ensign. The unbeliever may not see it. Jesus also said, "He that believeth in Me the works that I do shall he do also." What would it be? It would be a sign, an ensign. It was once asked Him, "Let my son set on--one on the right hand, and one on the left."
He said, "Can you drink the cup that I drink? Can you be baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with?" The same Holy Spirit was upon Him without measure comes upon His church by measure; but it's the same Holy Spirit, the same God. It's the Ensign.

L-56 We are God's ensigns to the world. That's the reason I'm always scolding the Pentecostal church, getting after them, their ways of living. That's the reason the world can't see Christ, is because we let down the bars. We get away from that.
When our women dress and act like the rest of the world; when our men go out--and dirty jokes, and smoke, and carry on like the rest of them, married four or five times, and everything else; pulls, get them into church, and things like that... Why, no. The world don't believe you've got it.
Let me tell you, brother, when you are dead and your life is hid in Christ through God, and sealed by the Holy Ghost, and God lifts you up in heavenly places, you'll be an ensign that a work of God has been committed in you.

L-57 Jesus said in Mark 16, "These signs shall follow them that believe." What kind of an ensign is it? Some great stuffed shirt? No, humility. The Fullness of God in Christ Jesus made Him walk like a humble peasant, made Him wash the feet of His disciples, had not a place to lay His head.
Some of us calling ourselves Christians, we go to a place, we got to have the best there is in the country; got to be guaranteed so much money or we won't go (the evangelist). Some pastors won't go to a church unless it's a high class and big place. Oh, my.
We need another experience like Paul saw when he was on the road to Damascus. Paul saw that ensign lifted up, and he said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus."
What we need tonight is another Pillar of Fire hanging over the church again tonight, that people's blinded eyes would be opened and could see it. Jesus still lives and reigns, the ensign.

L-58 Now, He's the... God gave us this ensign. It's an eternal ensign. Remember that all of Roman's ensigns, all of the--Nimrod's ensigns, all of Babylon's, and all the rest of them are crushed and gone. We only know them by history.
I stood in Rome to--where the Caesars once ruled the world, and you'd have to dig down twenty foot in the dirt to find their--where their palace was. Stood in Egypt where the Pharaoh's were, and it's gone and turned to dust.

L-59 Brother, but there is an ensign that God achieved one day by lifting up Jesus Christ from the dead and sending the Holy Ghost upon His church. And heavens and earth will pass away, but His Word shall never pass away. "Upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." Why? The living ensign is in the church: the ensign, the infallible, the perfect proof, something you can put your hands on, something that you could look at.


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