<TITLE>08. Par 35-39</TITLE>L-35 But to my surprise, right on the arm of that scarecrow set two big, healthy birds just eating blackberries, or strawberries, till who wouldn't have it. See? I thought, "That's right. There's no condemnation to them that's in the patch." That's one thing, sure. Yes, sir. They... Why, they didn't pay a bit more attention to that scarecrow than nothing. They set right there and eat just the same, because it was strawberries, and it was there for them.
And God bless that man or woman who can walk around every unbelieving scarecrow that tries to point something this or that, go right on in the patch, because there's a good crop (Amen.), right in season. Go right into the patch now. No condemnation to them big birds that can go right on in there and not afraid of the scarecrow.

L-36 A vindication of God's Word being true, God bears record of His Word by His signs. God's Word is a Seed, and that Seed has to bring forth of Its kind (Genesis 1:11), every seed of its kind. And Jesus said that the Word of God was a Seed that a sower sowed. So then, every promise in the Bible has to produce its kind. Amen.
Now, how you going to get away from it? When they say there's no such a thing as the Holy Ghost in this day, that I was only give to the apostles, when Peter said on the day of Pentecost, when they'd all received the Holy Ghost... Now, look what they were doing. According to Isaiah and all the prophets that prophesied the Holy Ghost would be poured out... Now, here's a man under inspiration with the Holy Ghost. He said, "The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Now, if you're scared of the scarecrows you'll never get it. See? But if you're not afraid, come right on in behind the scarecrow. No matter what's done this and that, that has nothing to do with you or God's Word. Just stay right with the Word.

L-37 Now, the signs are a vindication of the true Word. God in all ages has said that. Now, some of you might want to take down some of these Scriptures. If you do, put Hebrews 2:4 there. You see that--that God has vindicated, vindicated His messengers. "God in sundry times and divers manners," Hebrews starts out, "spoke unto the fathers by the prophets, in this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus." See? And seeing that, them had the Gospel preached to them way back long ago, and had signs and wonders to vindicate that; then how much more should we hold on after God with divers signs and wonders and gifts of the Holy Ghost? Oh, divers of signs, the signs that Jesus Christ showed that He was here on earth, Who He was, and what He was, and the--and the purpose He was here from.

L-38 No wonder He said, "You can discern the face of the skies, but the signs of the time you cannot discern. If you'd have knowed Me, you'd have knowed My day." See? That's what's the matter today. People realize--fail to recognize the day that we're living in. These things has to be this a way. There's nothing out of order; everything's running perfect.

L-39 Preached not long ago on a little subject, Hebrews, I beg your pardon, Matthew 11:6. It's... I call it, I believe, "The--The--The Hidden Beatitude." It was Jesus speaking, when John's disciples come over to Him, you know, and said...
John got a little worried down there, because he had preached that there was a Christ coming. (Now, this would be good for Pentecostal brethren.) There was a Christ coming. John stood out there with the axe laid to the root of the tree, and the snakes a-running. That's what he was taught. He was in the wilderness. He didn't have any seminary experience. So only thing he knowed was the axe in the wilderness and a bunch of snakes. And that's what he classed everything as (See?), what he'd seen in the wilderness. And so he--he knowed a snake had to flee when it was run.


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