<TITLE>22. Par 84-87</TITLE>L-84 That's why the all-wise God equipped His army with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. He knowed these intellectual giants would stand in this last days. Hallelujah. He knowed they'd stand, and they'd be able to explain by their great wisdom, powers of Satan. Peter said, "They're like a roaring lion, devouring what he will." Yes.
But He said, "I'm not going to leave you comfortless. I'm coming again. I'm going to be with you." He equipped His army with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Said, "Go up there, every one of you and wait. (Luke 24:49) Behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until--until you're endued with power from on high. After this, the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you shall be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, Judaea (Acts 1:8), plumb on down to the utmost parts of the world."

L-85 When the Holy Ghost fell and the fire begin to fall upon them, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. And out into the streets they all run together. They said, "What meaneth all of this here? Why do we hear every man in our own language wherein we were born?" went ahead and called the different languages they were speaking. And others mocked said, "These are full of new wine."
But Peter stood up in the midst of them and said, "You men of Jerusalem, and you that dwell in Judaea, let this be known unto you, and hearken to my words: These are not drunk like you suppose it is. Why, it's only--why, it's only the third hour of the day..." Nine o'clock in the morning, saloons ain't even open yet. See? "This is it." Yes, sir. "This is not that, but this is that which is spoke of by the prophet Joel," coming back to that Word. And he hewed it, and he cut it from side to side. Amen.

L-86 And them elders was pricked to their heart and said, "Men and brethren, what can we do?"
He said, "Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission for your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Yes, sir. There's the pattern; that's what He said do. Follow it once and see if it's right. Amen. Yes, sir. I like that, 'cause it's a promise.

L-87 In the Old Testament when the manna fell... The first manna that fell, God told them to go out there and get an omer full of that (omers full) and put it in the holiest of holies. If they tried to keep it over, it got little termites, wiggletails in it. You know what little wiggletails, we call them down south there. They get in the cistern and everything, you know, and little--little bugs. That's what's the matter with too many people's experience. Got some bugs in it (See?), trying to keep it over on what they had two years ago. My, let's get it right now again.
That manna fell every night, and that manna was Christ. See, you can't keep yesterday's experience. Got to have one right now. See? That's right, today. But there was some of it kept back in the holiest of holies, which stayed. He said, "All the generations that follow after you, when they become a priest in the priesthood they can take a bite of the original manna that fell at the first." See?


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