<TITLE>17. Par 119-124</TITLE>L-119 Listen, brother, if you can come this morning with a vision of the will of God, if you can come with the Word of God, I don't care what happens, "I'm going to be persistent. I've... In my heart since I've been setting here, I got a vision of God. I'm persistent. I'm going to be--I'm going to be perseverant. I'm going down; I'm going to take over. This thing's got to leave me." It's going to leave you, brother. Don't you worry; it'll leave you.

L-120 David, standing up there before Goliath, why, he was persistent. He said, "You mean to tell me that you'll stand and let that modern science, scientists out there..." Now, it sounds sacrilegious, but I hope you know what I mean. You mean to tell me that that modern scientists can stand there and say the days of miracles is past, when the Word of the living God disputes it? You mean to tell me that you'll let modern science say there's no such a thing as Divine healing, and the Bible, sixty-some percent of Jesus' ministry was Divine... Yeah, eighty-six percent, I think, was Divine healing. And the promise, and the last promises...
You mean to tell me, my minister brethren, that you'll stand and let this modern so-called denominational cults going into the League of Churches here, or Council of Churches, and mean to tell me you'll stand in that organization and let them smother the Word of God in you, and tell you the days of miracles is past? Who are you anyhow? Have you ever had any experience? Was you ever borned again of the Spirit of God? You, if you have, brother, you'll certainly take God's Word for it. Let everything else be a lie. Certainly.

L-122 Notice, David had an experience. He took a little slingshot. He didn't have very much. It was a slingshot, but he knew that the God of heaven was with him. And he went out there and slew a bear and a lion, and he knew what it would do. And he said, "You mean to tell me, if God can deliver that bear and lion into my hands, how much more can He deliver that boasting, uncircumcised Philistine out there?"

L-123 This boasting world of today, saying the days of miracles is past, and a Russia raising up here, storming the churches down and putting them to shame. There's nothing in them to work for. Why is it little old Castro down there, that little devil-possessed fellow... Now, I--I know him, shook his hands and met him, and so forth when I was there. And he talked nice to me, and everything like that, said he believed there was coming a millennium and a Christ, and so forth, but he sold out to the devil. But what did he do? He done some good things. He did do one thing; he counterfeited all that money and started the currency new again. That's what's going to have to happen here one of these days, where these big hogs of whiskey stillerys, and tobacco companies that can take their income tax and put it out on television out here... I know I'm talking on tapes. But let me tell you; that's the truth, though. That's the money that should go to the government. But they can get around it. But you start, fail to pay yours one time and see what happens. They'll strip you down for it.

L-124 Mean to tell me that bunch of uncircumcised Philistines stand out here and defy the armies of the living God? We back up such a thing as that. What the church needs today is going back to God, back to His Word, back to the power, back to Pentecost; not to Pentecostal organization, back to the experience of Pentecost. Them guys are out of the wheel when they talk about Pentecostal organization. Pentecost is an experience; it comes to Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, or whoever wants It. That's right. God don't deal with a nation, with a people, with a denomination; He deals with an individual. Always, with the Gentiles, taking a people out of the Gentiles for His Name's sake. See? That's the way He deals with them. Now, quickly, I must hurry.


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