<TITLE>03. Par 10-14</TITLE>L-10 So... But I... A mule, he's dumb. You know, you could just talk to him, and he will wait all of his life to just kick you before he dies. And he... You can tell him... You can't teach him nothing; he's hard headed. You can try to be gentle to him, and he will stick his ears out, you know, and holler, "Haw, days of miracles is past. Haw, there's no such a thing as that," you know, just braying...
But a good thoroughbred, pedigreed horse you can just teach him anything. He knows who his pappy is, who his mammy is, who his great-grandfather and great-grandmother. He knows the history all the way back. And so is it with a good pedigreed Christian that's borned of the Holy Ghost. He don't have to say, "I was Methodist, Baptist; and I had to change to Presbyterian, Lutheran." He was born by the Holy Ghost into the family of God, and the pedigree runs plumb to Pentecost with it. Hallelujah. Amen. I like that inoculation.

L-11 I was amazed at Sister Shakarian. Are you here, Sister Shakarian? Sister Demos Shakarian... This morning she was telling in the meeting at the... Phoenix we was having the banquet, the dinner, banquet, or whatever you call it... I get that all mixed up all the time. I--I used to have breakfast, and dinner, and supper. And now, they got that dinner set up here for supper; and if I call that dinner, then what happens to my supper? I just can't... I can't get the thing straightened out somehow. And--and I... And it's just breakfast, dinner, and supper at our house. So and that's all right. You know, you don't take the Lord's dinner. You take His supper. Isn't that right? So we're--so we're right on that, brother, ever who said, "Amen" to that.

L-12 But we were having that banquet that night, and happened to be... You have no control of what the Holy Spirit's going to do. See? You don't control Him; He controls you. See? When anybody goes in and says, "Now, you, so-and-so..." Why, you don't know what He's going to do. You just have to wait.
Then I remember, the Holy Spirit came down. And--and on that discernment, it's just like dropping into a gear. And if the people don't realize it, but they are the one that's doing that. It's not me. It's their own faith.
I might try to give just a short moment or two of explanation of it, try to explain it. You can't explain God, because you've just got to believe God. If you can explain Him, then you can no more accept it by faith (See?), because you know all about it; you can explain it, but we accept God by faith.

L-13 But you see, in Christ dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. Now, He was God. We are a portion of that Spirit. It was give to us by measure: Him without measure. But if I took a spoonful of water, or a cupful of water, out of the ocean out here, it would be the same chemicals in that water would be in the entire ocean.
So that's the way the Holy Spirit is. When It's in us; It's not as great, but It's--It's in a... It's just the same Spirit, does the same things.

L-14 Then you notice one time when our Lord... He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him first. And He had a friend named Lazarus, and He... Living with this friend, and the friend was going to get sick, so the Father must've called Him away, and give Him a vision to leave.
He waited so many days. They sent for Him. He never went. He just kept on going. Then after the appropriate time was that the Father had showed Him would take for Lazarus to die, He said, "Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him."
And so, when He come to Martha and them... We know the story. And then, when He raised up this dead man, He never said nothing about being weak. That was God using His gift.


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