<TITLE>15. Par 49-51</TITLE>L-49 See? What? Faith... This is a scorcher, and I hope you get it. Faith always recognizes the Word to be true. Uh-huh. That's right. Faith always sanctions the Word with a "Amen." No matter what anything else is, the Word's always right. No matter if they say, "The days of miracles is past." And the Bible said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," faith says That's the Truth. That's right. If they say the Holy Ghost is just for a group back there, a hundred and twenty on the day of Pentecost, and the Bible said... Peter said on Pentecost, "The promise is unto you, and to your children, and them that is far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call," faith holds to that. Nobody can take it away from you. You got it!
"Oh, I don't know if... nobody ever did receive it."
God promised it, and here I'm after it.
"That's for another day."
It's for me too, because something in me tells me that He just loves as much today as He ever did. He's the same God. Then you can be persistent and stay right there, knocking, seeking, holding on until the Holy Ghost comes down upon you. Amen. Now, I feel religious. Yes, sir. Amen. I know that's true. I've tested it. I know it's the truth.

L-50 All right. Her faith held on. My. Oh, I love that. "Yes," she said, "That's true, Lord. I'm a dog. I'm a Gentile. I'm not worthy of any of these blessings. They actually belongs to the Jews. You come to Your Own. I believe every bit of that." But still, still down in her heart, she wasn't hurt. She didn't feel bad about it; she was recognizing the truth.
Now, if God come tell you that some of the cold formal conditions, that you'll perish in your sins if you continue that way, well, you'd blow up. My, my, my. You wouldn't listen to it. You'd say, "That's a false prophet." Yet the Word tells you that's the truth. But you won't listen to the Word. Oh, brother, I like it.
Why, she wasn't a hotbed plant. She wasn't a--had to be sprayed, a hybrid like some of the crop that this generation has produced, had to be babied around. No. Have to take it... And oh, she'd take it any way He give it. That's all. She was there for it. She wanted it. Not, "Lord, now You--You quit talking like that to me, and You come over to my house." That--that wasn't... He just... He just wanted to hear... He... She just wanted Him to say so; that's all. That's all she wanted to hear: just Him to say so.

L-51 She didn't have to be sprayed over and babied and petted and, "Oh, now, dear, you should come. You know, if you'll come tonight, I'll go with you sometime somewhere." Oh, mercy. "Oh, I tell you what, I'll have our pastor to get you a front seat, and I--I'll get a special interview with him after..." Oh, my, baby such stuff as that. That's hybrid stuff.
"All the Father has given Me will come to Me," said Jesus. And, "No man can come except My Father draws him." Weigh that up in your scales one time, see where you are. Yes, sir. You find out, it'll flash. Amen. Yes, sir. Put the Geiger on that and find out what happens. That's right. It'll flash. Why? It's the real genuine Word of God. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him. And all the Father has given Me will come."
You don't have to baby, and pet them, and promise they're going to have a fleet of Cadillacs if they'll receive the Holy Ghost. And they're going to--business is going to prosper, and they're going to have bigger churches, and higher steeples, and better educated preachers, and... Oh, nonsense. Get away from it. Faith that holds the Word of God yields the power of God. Right. Then you're persistent.
"Why, I ain't got no fleet of Cadillacs yet, and I been over here with you all a year. All I got's a lot of persecution." Oh, you hybrid donkey, don't even know what papa and mama is. That's the way it is though. My, my. Yeah.


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