<TITLE>18. Par -</TITLE>L-30-2 If you went to another nation as a wishy-washy, you wouldn't make a very good American. And if you went over there... If you was a-going in now to Japan, and you slipped around behind the line saying, "Listen fellows, I'm for you. You know, I'm for you, but I'm over on the other side." You traitor. You ought to be shot. That's right. You're a traitor. Sure.
And then that's the same way it is. A man that knows the Word of God and will compromise on It because some organization tells him he has to do it that way; that's a traitor. That's right. But these men wasn't traitors. They didn't care how much--well, how they carried on, how their church manners was: screaming, and crying, and shouting, and--and jabbering off languages that seemed like--the Jew--they was talking to one another and couldn't understand it. Them men out there in the audience of other nations and other tongues begin to hear what they were saying. They didn't know what they were saying; they were jabbering, but other people out there understood it. And they said, "These persons are certainly drunk."
But Peter said, "They're not drunk, but they're filled with the Spirit." So that... Every one of them went to martyrdom, except John, and he was burned twenty-four hours in a vat of grease; and they couldn't even burn the Spirit out of him. And then he died a natural death, the only one, John the Revelator.

L-30-5 Now, that is right. Notice now, what taken place. On this, God planted a Tree to bring forth nine spiritual gifts, gifts of His Spirit. The same Spirit was in Christ come down upon the church, had Eternal Life. Now, gifts of the Spirit was in the church, and It was growing, bearing forth fruit everywhere. They thought not of theirself; they didn't organize nothing; they just went ahead and was brothers. They had no (I'm glad that little thing was on there.) --"No creed but Christ, no law but love, no book but the Bible." That's what I believe. See? And that's the way they did. The world's our parish (See?) everywhere.

L-31-1 So notice these fellows when they were doing that, how glorious that church was; and God was with them. The Bible said... And Jesus met them before His ascension up. He said,
Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.
... these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name...
Now, these signs... Now, today, what kind of a sign we call a believer? He shakes hands with the pastor; he belongs to a church; he has his name on a book because his mother's had a name or father had a name on a book.

L-31-3 But that wasn't what Jesus said. Jesus said, these signs... That's church natural; we're talking about church spiritual. We're talking about a spiritual Tree, not a natural tree. (We're getting to those two trees in a--after a bit.) See? A spiritual Tree. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that hangs on this Tree. These signs shall follow them that's getting their Life out of this Tree. In My Name they shall cast out devils (whew.); they shall speak with new tongues; if they should take up a serpent or drink deadly things, it would not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover."
There's the kind of signs He said would follow the believer. Where is it today? He give the world an example of what would be the--the believer's sign. And He said it would be far better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea than even to bring offense to one of them, for "their angels always beholds My Father's face, which is in heaven"--the angels.


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