<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 I was called to--by God to preach the Gospel thirty-one years ago. I've fought ever since. Every inch of ground I've fought with the Sword of God, taking the promise, and cutting away.
Somebody come say, "Now, we belong to the Baptist group." Said, "Well, you can't believe that. That wasn't for us." What do you do? Take the Sword, and cut free from it, and keep marching on.
I come with the Pentecostals, said, "You go with this group, we'll have nothing to do with you."
The other group said, "If you go with them, we'll have nothing to do with you."
Cut loose. Just keep marching on. Yes. Just keep... Had to fight every inch of it.

L-21 But what is it? It's a promise. God made the promise. Let's stay with it. God promised it. No matter... You've got to have a battle. If everything comes lazy, why, you're... What are you overcoming? They overcome by the Word of God and their testimony, the Blood of Christ.
You've got to overcome something, and you've got to have some obstacles. And people that different, and fuss with you, and tell you you're holy-rollers, and things, you--that's put before you, it's a trial. If you haven't got that, then you're not even in the battle. What did you join the church...
What did you join the Army and get training for? To lay around, strut up and down the streets and show off? That's the way some Christians act, that we want to be looked up to. You ain't going to be looked up to. You're going to be looked down on. "For all that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions." Pick up the Sword, cut everything free from you, and keep going on.

L-22 Joshua, Caleb, stilled the people. They said, "We can't take it, we just can't do it. That's all." See, they were looking at the Amalekites. Joshua and Caleb was looking at the promise. That's the difference. Depends on what you're looking at.
Joshua said, "We're more than able to do it. We're more than able. Why," said, "they're only bread for us. Why, they look great. They are great. But we'll have great bread." Said, "God gave us the promise, and the fear of us is upon every one of them. Yet they different with us; yet they're scared of us." Sure. Said, "The fear--fear of the Lord's upon every one of them. They're scared to death of us." Said, "Let's go take it. God give it to us, so it's ours. Let's move on and take it."

L-23 Oh, if I could get that Pentecostal group together. That uncircumcised Philistine standing out there, and say, "We have to have all this, and all of that." Nonsense. "We'll have to kinda go in the World Council of Churches to have fellowship with them."
Our fellowship is of--from God, not with no council of men and man-made dogmas. We are--we are people of God who expect fellowship from God. That's where our rights is, is with God. How can we fellowship with God 'less we fellowship in His Word? Because the Word is God. And the Word's made flesh when it becomes you. "If ye abide in Me and My Word in you, then ask what you will." There you are. See? But the Word's got to abide in here. If it don't, the shower falls, and, why, it can't produce, because you don't believe it. No matter how much you profess to believe it, you got to believe it. All right.


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