<TITLE>03. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 And like it was told one time in England... There was a poet who had wrote the poems of the--how beautiful the sea was, and the sea gulls, and how it reflected its beauty of the sky in itself. And--and so, he was going to... Never seen the sea, but one day he was on his road down to the seashore. And on his road down he met an old, what we would call, an old salt, old sailor.
And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "Oh, I am a poet. I've wrote of the sea." And said, "I'm--I've never seen it as yet. I've only written on what I've read about." And said, "I'm going down now to have my first experience. I want to smell the briny waters, and I--I want to hear the call of the sea gull as it--as it circles in the--the--the air; and see its frolicking waves, as it throws its whitecaps, and the blue skies reflect itself into the water."
And the old salt stood there, and puffed on his pipe a few times, and spit, said, "I don't see nothing so thrilling about it." Said, "I've been on it for fifty years. I was borned on it." Said, "I don't see nothing about it." See, he had saw it so much till it become common to him.

L-12 And I believe that tonight that that's a whole lot the matter with our churches in our Full Gospel ranks here in America: that we have seen so much of the goodness of God till it's become common to us. We just don't respect it like we should. We think we do, but I--I really believe that we should give more earnest heed to that which we have heard, lest any time we should let it slip. Now, I--I believe that that's true.
And when, maybe for instance, one single act of God here, probably you would walk out and say, "Well, that was all right." But that one act, maybe, in some jungle back there in South Africa, or Tanganyika, wherever it might be, Kenya, would cause maybe thousands to fall on their face, and give glory to God, just that one thing take place. So you can see where the great power of the pulling of the Spirit is to go where the Word is--is made manifest.

L-13 Now, we have sent missionaries into the foreign fields for years. I found the same thing when we come into South Africa, where I missionaried here with our brother. And what did we find? Mostly was reading, writing, and arithmetic. Now, I have great respect for--for Africa and for my Afrikaans, also brethren. But what it takes to make a man who don't even know which is right hand and left hand... How you going to tell him anything or lead him to Christ, about a tract that you might pass to him that he can't read. See? What he wants... He reads of a God or--and he knows about another god, and all kinds of gods. But what he wants is something in action, something he can see.
That's the reason the apostles was endued with power, because they were in a day of pagans, and different gods was being worshipped. And they wanted to see the manifestation of a truly living God, that could make Himself known.


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