<TITLE>20. Par 93-96</TITLE>L-93 When nations (Listen now, in closing.)... When nations here not long ago begin to provide a helmet for the protection of their army... Now, they knew they was going to have to use it. They knew there'd be shrapnel flying, so they knew they had to use it. Oh, it may not have seemed so necessary in training. But brother, once on the battlefield, you have to have it.
When they're training soldiers, if there's any here... I think it's a ninety-pound pack they put on a little rookie's back. Start him out here, and like to nearly sweats himself to death. In training he don't think it's necessary, but just wait till the time comes. He will need everything that's in that pack. He will be glad he had it. Yes, sir. He--he's got to have it, and he will be glad that they trained him to use it.

L-94 And so now, God, knowing at this last days there will come intellectual giants, there will come everything intellectual, all kinds of the enemy with reasoning powers to try to prove to the church that the days of miracles is past and all this. God packed in the baptism of the Holy Ghost with what? Speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecies, gifts, and all kinds of things. They may seem hard in training, but, brother, on the battle front, every one of them's got to be used. God equips His soldiers exactly what it takes to use. Amen.
Oh, they might say, "Just learn psychology." That won't work. No, sir. That's as thin as broth made out of the shadow of a chicken that starved to death. So that's no good. We have to have power of the Holy Ghost coming upon a man, with all the nine spiritual gifts dwelling in him.
Oh, you say, "I just don't like to get out. I don't like to pray all night. I don't like..." Well, then you're going to get killed out on the battle front.

L-95 You stay there till God equips you with the baptism of the Spirit. Then everything you've got need of in this world or the world to come, lives right in you. The all wise God knowed how to equip His army. He equipped it with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That's exactly what He sent for these last days.
He knew that we'd have to have it. He knew that people would reason, would go to reading this Word when it become in print out here, what would happen. And today we find the people saying, "Well now, where is that God of history? Where is that God that crossed the Red Sea? Where is that God that healed the sick?" They try to say, "It's back..."

L-96 What good does it do to give your canary bird vitamins, and make him have good strong wings, and keep him in a cage? That's what they try to do with the people: feed them all kinds of vitamins of this, that, and the other, and the first thing you know, tell them all the days of miracles is past. You're penned up in some little thing down here. It's a lie. Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God knowed it would take the baptism of the Holy Ghost to prove His latter day signs. That's right.
He knew, to be an effective witness... Like our gracious friend (I don't call his name, because it's not proper. This is going on tape.)... but a precious friend, a good brother, the kind that's going down in Sodom I told you about the other night... When he was in India (You know who I'm talking about.), that Indian bishop challenged him that there was no such a thing as Christ; it was a man-made religion. He said, "I'll get thirty people on this side, of sick; and you take thirty on that side. I'll heal one every time you heal one. And your Bible teaches that it'll heal."
And this certain great evangelist said, "Days of miracles is past." He wouldn't do such a thing as that.


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