<TITLE>27. Par 121-124</TITLE>L-121 I want to know along here, you people that's sick, anywhere in the building wherever you may be, and knows that I don't know one thing about you, just raise up your hand. Now, it's just solid. Now, you pray. You do this...
Now, this was promised. If I had time to take you back to where Jesus said, "Like it was in the days of--of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man..." Did you notice what kind of church that Angel set by, when He had His back turned to the audience like, or back to the tent and He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" in the tent?
Now, Jesus predicts right there that that thing will happen again. It... God vindicated Hisself that way to the Jews, to the Samaritans, but not to the Gentiles; 'cause the Gentiles wasn't looking for no Messiah. Today we're looking for a Messiah, and the way He did it back there... God is God. He can never make a decision and then change, and say, "I--I'll do something else." And if He lets the church go in just on theology, without showing Himself visible among them like that, then He's doing something for them back there He didn't do for us. But He promised to do it. That's what I believe, and that's what He proves.

L-122 Now, have faith in God. Be persistent. Say, "Lord Jesus, that little old bald-headed preacher standing there don't know nothing about me. But You do. Lord Jesus, without being nervous, all pressured-up, I come humbly. I confess every sin that I've ever done. I love You, Lord. Let me touch You, will You, Lord? I need You. Then You use his lips. If he's told me the truth, and I believe he has, use his lips and speak back, heavenly Father, and let me know. Speak to me like You did the woman that had the blood issue. I'll believe You." Will you do that? Would it make you persistent then, if you hold right on? All right.

L-123 Let us pray. Now, heavenly Father, the meeting is Yours. I cannot make myself... I only ask, Lord... I don't even ask You to do it. But if it be in Your Divine will, in Your order, let it come to pass. No matter what I would say, one Word from You will mean more than all of us could say, Lord, in a lifetime, just one Word from You.
Now, I've tried through these thirty-one years of preaching to hold Your Name, to speak of You. And now, Father, Thou has never let me down at any time, and I don't believe You will tonight. So I pray that You'll give us something, Lord, that the people might go home, the strangers with us, and say, "Truly, Jesus Christ is not dead. He's alive, because I seen Him working through human beings tonight, doing the same work. So it must be the same Life." And then they'll hunger for You, Lord, and come and confess You as their Saviour. Grant it, I pray, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-124 Pulling back here, just don't... Pray, just pray for me. See? Maybe out here. Our time will be tonight. Sets right in quick. I like that. Oh, you don't know how I feel. By the way, have you bought your picture of it yet? How many ever seen the picture of that Angel of the Lord? They've got it back there. You can get it. It was taken over here; it's in Washington, DC in the Religious Hall of Arts: only supernatural Being ever photographed, a Pillar of Fire.
Years ago, as a little boy, when I was baptizing down on the river that day, just my first message in the Missionary Baptist church... I was baptizing five hundred. And that afternoon, on June, 1933, on June, about the 15th, here come that Pillar of Fire whirling out of the skies, like the pretty, sunshiny afternoon, and go right down in that Voice and shook the whole country round there, said, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message will forerun the second coming." Now, it's started a revival immediately after that. And there it's went across the nation, around the world, Pentecost reviving. And that's what has taken place, the second coming of Christ.


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