<TITLE>14. Par 46-48</TITLE>L-46 Oh, we send our missionaries today. Look at the difference in trying to send missionaries, even in our Pentecostal ranks. Why, some of our Pentecostal churches, or Pentecostal denominations, has to...
Our missionaries, before they leave to go overseas, has to stand before psychiatrists and get a mental examination. That's right. I've been right in the school when it was done. Have to stand before a mental test, to let a doctor tell you. And maybe the doctor's an unbeliever (See?): stand before a doctor, a psychiatrist, to get a mental test.
What we need today is not the mental test. The mental test is whether we'll believe the Word of God or not. If you don't believe the Word of God, then there's something wrong with you, sure enough. You may have all kinds of degrees: Ph.D's, D.D.D., and double L.D., whatever you might have, but if you don't believe the Word of God, you're an unbeliever. That's right.

L-47 Oh, ten years in school to learn to be a missionary: ten years, have to go to school to learn to be a missionary. Oh, my. That's terrible. Ten years to find out whether you can learn the language. What do you do when you try to speak the language? You gaum it up like some German did, over here six weeks, in trying to speak English. You don't know what he's talking about: same way. Some of them, they don't even have anything to learn by. How you going to know the language? What good's it going to do unless you got something to prove to them after you got there. You just become one of them, the same fix they're in. That's right.
We don't need to learn a language; we need to learn a heavenly language that's brought down from heaven by the power of the Holy Ghost, language of the Gospel: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
How different these are today than they was on the day of Pentecost. They didn't put them through a psychic test. They didn't put them through a school. There's no sign of them ever being there. But they didn't have to wait ten years; they waited ten days. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. They stayed there until they was convinced that that was the promise.

L-48 What if they'd been there for seven days? Andrew might've said to Philip: "Say, don't you know what? He told us to come up here and wait. I believe we've already got it. Let's accept it by faith."
What if Peter would've said to John, "You know what? He told us to come up here. So we've already been here nine days. I--I believe we just ought to accept it and go on about our ministry." If they would, they'd have had no ministry.
But He said, "I'll send the promise." What is the promise? They could go back over and over in Isaiah 28:19, and said, "Precept must be upon precept; line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Hold fast that what's good. For with stammering lips and with other tongues will I speak to this people. And this is the sabbath that I said that they should hear." That's right.
Joel said in 2:28: "It shall come to pass in the last days," saith God, "I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Upon My handmaids and maid servants will I pour out of My Spirit. Your old men will dream dreams; your young men shall see visions. How there'll be pillars of fire, and smoke and vapor; what the things would do to come to pass; but whosoever would call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved."


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