<TITLE>23. Par 172-176</TITLE>L-172 Now, you people that believe you have to speak in tongues to have the Holy Ghost, I want you to listen to this just a minute. When the Holy Ghost came down, upon the day of Pentecost, It was tongues of fire. That was the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, had separated Itself and was upon each one of them: God in His Church (Yes, sir.), the Holy Ghost. That's right. There's where they received the Holy Ghost. When they spoke in tongues, it wasn't an unknown tongue; they was speaking to people out there who understood them. The Gospel must go out at that time. They went out into the audience, and then out into the courts and begin to speak with languages, not unknown. You get the cart before the horse when you think you have to speak with unknown tongues. No, sir, they spoke with languages. The people understood, every man, "How hear we every man in our own tongue where we were born?" A act of God sending forth the Holy Ghost... So much for that.

L-173 This Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, even a Discerner of thoughts of the heart. And what? It can only be handled by one hand. A sword is dominant. It--it has nothing in it unless it's handled by a hand. And when a hand of faith can pick up God's Word, it'll do the same thing Jesus did. "The works that I do shall you do also."
Maybe you can cut just a little, maybe you got a weak hand of faith, you can cut enough off to say, "Well, I can see enough daylight to see I'm saved." But what about the other promises? If you got a strong hand of faith, pick up the full Word of God and cut right on through every darkness (Amen.), until the Light of God shines in, and look face to face with God, standing on His Word. Amen. Hmm.

L-175 She had many hindrances, this poor little woman did. She had many hindrances, but her faith didn't have any. No, no. She had heard. Faith had took ahold. She heard, and her faith had took ahold. Now, they might've said this to her, "You know, you're a Greek. You know, you'll never get nothing, because there's segregation. You see? You'll never get nothing here." But did she pay attention to that? No, sir. She had faith, and that faith was all she needed, because she knowed that that was the Word of God standing there. She had faith. Some of them might've said to her like this, "But wait a minute." Her own nation, her own church might've said, "Now wait a minute, the days of miracles is past. Don't you go down there. The days of miracles is past." But something another about faith, it has a source that don't pay any attention to that, and just don't notice it. She had done picked up that Word. He is the Word. She had faith to hold It. She walked on.
They might've laughed at her, said, "Well, everybody else is going to laugh at you, 'cause your daughter will be just as sick next year as she is this year. She'll still have that devil; she'll be just as sick." But she didn't pay any attention to that. Faith had a hold. See? "You'll be put out of your church if you ever go there in one of that. Just remember, they'll put you out. They'll excommunicate you." That didn't mean anything to her. Faith went on over the top of that. She was determined to get to Jesus. That's it.

L-176 Now, to save time, when we could take a text of each one of those and stay with it, but now to save time... When she got to Jesus, she still got a disappointment, her herself, but not her faith. When she got to Jesus, He said, "I'm not sent to your race." What a flat rejection. "I'm not sent to you people." Just think, the One that she thought she had so much faith in, and He turned her down. "I'm not sent to you people; I'm only sent to Israel. You're a Gentile. I'm not even sent to you. And besides, you're nothing but dogs." Whew. That didn't bother that faith, just kept moving on. Yes. Said, "I'm just sent to the lost sheep of Israel."


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