<TITLE>12. Par 52-57</TITLE>L-52 Now. But when Jesus came, we found out He was born in a manger. So right quick the Jews disagreed. He didn't come the way he thought--they thought He was to come, so they just excommunicated Him from their fellowship. And He was no more in it. But watch what He done. He, when He... That didn't stop Him.
When Pentecost was first born, the church was excommunicated too. That didn't stop the message. It goes on just the same. Jesus can't be stopped. Who can stop God? You can't do it. No, you could no more do it... You could easier stop the sun. But you can't stop God. His program's going to move on. So it come...

L-53 When the churches back there was praying for a revival, it come in an unexpected way. He got a bunch of some one-eyed colored man over here in California, and a couple of hoboes on the street, and things like that, and filled them with the Holy Ghost and started a fire that... Look where it's gone to now. It's the fastest growing church in the world.
They had more converts last year than all the rest of them put together. That's right. "Our Sunday Visitor," the Catholic paper, said so. They registered a million five hundred thousand. What? God's Word sails on, on, and on. And His people will never take down... They're soldiers (amen) 'cause the Word of the living God is burning in their hearts. That's right. God's sending them things in different places, blessing them, bringing them on.

L-54 Now, let's keep our mind on the Word, and on God, and keep moving on. Now, don't get it off saying, "We're going to be the biggest group," or, "We got the best group in the town. The best-dressed crowds comes to our place," or something like that. If you get that on your mind, you're fallen right then. See? Yes, sir. Just remember. Wherever the Spirit is, there the living creatures was. That's right. Stay with the Spirit of God. Whatever you do, stay with that Spirit.

L-55 Now, Jesus when He grew up, He proved He was that Messiah that they'd prayed for. He showed them His sign of Messiah. He proved that He was Messiah by the signs that He done. Look at the woman at the well when He told her her sins, that she had five husbands. "Why," she said, "Sir, we know when Messiah cometh, He will tell us all things." But she didn't know Who He was.
He said, "I'm He."
Look at Nathanael, when he came back with Philip, and he walked up in the Presence of Jesus. And Jesus told him who he was, where he come from, what he'd been doing. Oh, my. It proved... He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." My, sure. Because what? He's proven.

L-56 He was... He was the... they... He was not brought in the way that Israel thought He'd be issued in. They thought He'd be a mighty King with a stick in His hand, and go out and beat the Romans over the head with it. But that wasn't God's way. That wasn't even the Scripture for Him to do it in that coming. The next coming's when He's going to do that. They got the first and second coming mixed up together.
So He come then lowly, meek, setting on a mule, riding in. And He come out of the--of the--the smallest city amongst all the--of the big provinces. And oh, the Scriptures just fulfilled of His coming, the way He would come, but they failed to see it. See? But He did the Messiahic sign, proved that He was Messiah, and they rejected Him because He come in an unexpected way to them.

L-57 Now, if they'd just been willing to accept Him upon the basis that God sent Him... Can we tonight, as Pentecostal people, accept the Holy Ghost upon the basis that God sent it? Can we expect the Holy Spirit to do what God said It would do when It come in? Is that the basis we want to accept it upon? Or do we want to say, "Oh, I believe I received the Holy Ghost when I believed. I shook my pastor's hand, and I tell you; I--I believe I got the Holy Ghost."
That's not what the Bible said. "When He comes He will testify of Me," Jesus said (See?) when He comes.


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