<TITLE>02. Par 8-12</TITLE>L-8 Now, what that is is her faith in that gift. See? She don't realize, but she's the one's a-doing it. She does it herself. Now, if we just think a moment, maybe, so that you'd get little better hold on what it is in these few minutes. Let's take our Lord, because, after all, everything is of Him. See? It's Him, and not us. It couldn't be one of we minister brothers or anyone. It is...
We don't claim to preach the Gospel by our own intelligence. We preach it by the power of God. You ministers do that. And that's the power of God comes upon you and anoints you. And even in your own--your ministry you say things, and sometimes you... "Why'd I change my text?" And you know how it is. See? That's God doing it. You see? And He--and He... You might think that the whole audience missed it. And maybe one little individual setting out there, God was directing that entire message right to that one person.

L-9 And sometimes you've noticed you've went right down the line preaching, saying "This is it. This is it." And then the next time, you turn around and say something look like contradicts that. You think, "Am I a hypocrite?" See? But you see, it's God working in you. Like I said about Jonah the other night. See, he wasn't out of the will of the Lord; it was God working in him. He sent him over one way, but he was setting--told him to go that way, but He turned him around. See? That's the way... Sometimes I've said things, and I turn around and think, "What's the matter with me?" Come to find out it's the Holy Spirit. And when a man's preaching by inspiration, must yield himself completely to the Spirit. It's the only way we're going to ever... Or, I can do it, 'cause I have no intellectual powers to--to put a sermon or anything together.

L-10 And you minister brothers, while we're together, I--I've said this from the platform. I want to say it again. I've kept the meeting kind of juvenile, you know, kind of so the people... There's many of them here... I realize this country, that this is a great Catholic country, bound to be here. See? And those people just coming in, they just... They don't get it if you go to something strong.

L-11 Now, let's take our Lord as our Example because He said He was our Example. Now, His Life is in us. Now, we think like this--for just to get a little thought of a--not a text to preach from, but Jesus said one time, speaking about marriage and divorce, He said, "It wasn't so from the beginning."
Now, we will have to go back to the beginning to get every thing, because every thing had a beginning, that we see now. It's eternal things that had no beginning, 'cause eternal never began, never ends. And it's the things that has a beginning has an end, everything. Now, Genesis is the seed chapter, so we'll have to go back to Genesis.

L-12 And studying through many books of the history of the church, the Hislop's "Two Babylons" (you've probably studied it), and Foxe's "Book of Martyrs," and--and the Pre-Nicaea Councils, Nicene Fathers, and so forth. You go back and find that every spirit in the land, and every cult, and everything, if you go back, it begin in Genesis. It's coming up to a blooming time, a blossoming time. You see them come out like Cain and Abel. And watch those two boys come right down to be Judas and Jesus. And just right on through (You see?), it comes right on out into this last days, where the antichrist and the Christ Spirit, so close, it'd deceive the very elected if possible. Now, we're taught that, and we know that's true.


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