<TITLE>09. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Now, Jesus said... Now, we want first to find who that Man was. It don't give His Name. But Abraham, who talked with Him, called Him "God." The word was used, "Elohim." "Elohim" in the--the Hebrew, I think, is the "all-sufficient One," the--the great One, Elohim, the great Almighty God. And if Abraham, who met Him, called Him that... Now, what did that represent? That the formal world there, would be a Sodom and Gomorrah.
Now, remember, that was before the fire fell. We're promised fire this time. And before it happened a messengers went down, and preached to the church that was still in the formal conditions in Sodom. And the Bible said that the sins of the city even vexed the soul, righteous soul, of Lot daily.
But the One that came to the elected church performed that kind of a sign. And Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." And yet, they don't see it. I can't understand it. All right.

L-30 Remember, that today, because that you see the church moving up from one great thing to another great thing... And those people sometime draw a little fence. If Luther had never drawed a fence, he'd be Pentecostal today. The Pentecostal church today is the advanced Lutheran church. That's exactly right. Now, we draw fences.
If we would make our organizations, and end our doctrine with a comma, "We believe this, plus as much as God will give to us," that would be fine. But they end it with a period. "We believe this. And you believe it, or you don't come around us." So therefore, God... you just shut yourself off. Right.
We must be willing and open to receive God, and whatever God's got for us, with an open heart. We must receive it. And therefore, when the nations here turned down the Word of God, there's heathens yonder that's ready to receive It. And the Gospel will go from this intellectual nation to the heathen that don't know right hand from left. And that's what's taking place right now. That's exactly. It's a leaving.

L-31 Now, John was so sure that he was going to see the Messiah, till he said, "He's in our midst now." Now, watch.
Notice. There's a great big difference in the sign of Jesus appearing, and then Jesus coming. There's two different words, means two different things: the appearing of the Lord, and the coming of the Lord.
Now, the appearing of the Lord is now, when He's appearing in His people, His Spirit working among them, proving that it's Him with them, getting them ready for the rapture, for the coming of the Lord to catch away His--the Bride (See?): the appearing and the coming. All right. Now.
Now, the thing we have to do if we can believe it, and be concerned about it, first we've got to be convinced that it is God. Then when we're convinced, then we are concerned. I like that. All right.

L-32 John knew what He would be. He looked for Him, because God told him in the wilderness, "There'll be a sign following Him." And when John saw that sign, he knew that Messiah was standing there somewhere, and he watched it, where it went to. And he said, "There's the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, for He that told me in the wilderness, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining on, He is the One that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.'"


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