<TITLE>10. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 What's the church scared about? I've always wondered what's the matter with the Pentecostal people. They--they've got... They've got enough faith to blow up the world, and they've got enough faith for all kinds of healings, but they're afraid to use it. That's the devil. If we could break that shadow of blackness from under the people, something's going to happen. And that's my purpose here.
I find two people, two classes. One of them's fundamentalist. Oh, they positionally know where they are by accepting Christ, positioned in Him; but they haven't got no faith. And I find the Pentecostals; a lot of faith, but don't know who they are. Just like a man's got money in the bank and can't write a check; and the other one's got--ain't got no money in the bank and he can write a check. If you could ever get the two together you got something. And if I could ever get the Pentecostal people to realize that they are sons and daughters of God, setting in heavenly places right now in Christ Jesus, that God foreknew before the foundation of the world, has ordained us to preach the... What you scared about? No matter what it is, swing out there. Take God's Word and believe it.

L-40 Set along, baby, and say you're Abraham's seed; when Abraham called things which was not as though they were because God said so. A man seventy-five years old, his wife sixty-five years old, and said they was going to have a baby. What do you think they'd do? Go down to the doctor and say, "Get things ready. We're going to have a baby."
Why, they'd say, "The man's crazy." Anybody that takes God's Word, the world calls them crazy.
Paul said, "In the way that's called heresy (crazy), that's the way I worship the God of our fathers." I'm glad to join hands with him tonight. That's right. All very fundamental in the Word too...

L-41 Now, notice. What was He? Ever what He was, He always has been and always will be. Now, I want you to notice. He was the Word. He was God's thought of a Redeemer expressed. That's what He was. He was the Word. And in Hebrews the 4th chapter and the 12th verse, the Bible said that the Word of God is more powerful, quicker, than a two-edged sword... even a discerner of the thoughts and--of the heart. God even knows what's on your mind. Now, hold that. "The Word of God is more powerful, sharper, than a two-edged sword, and It is a discerner of the thoughts of the heart." That's the Word.

L-42 That's the reason they couldn't believe Jesus. They couldn't understand Him. He said unto them, "Search the Scriptures. They are They that testify of Me. Search the Scriptures." He said to those learned priests, scholars, "You search the Scriptures. They are the Ones that testify of Me." In other words, "They... I manifest the Scriptures. I am making God's Word become reality. Search the Scriptures." They had their own idea about it; but He had the right way.
They had the way the Messiah was coming probably down the golden corridors and shake hands with Caiaphas, the high priest, if He come in his way. But look what He come. He never come contrary to the Scriptures. He come exactly the way the Scripture said. He said, "Search the Scriptures. They are They that testify of Me. They... I make the Scriptures manifest; and if I do not the manifestation by My works, then don't believe Me."
Oh, what a statement. A man that could take the written Word of God and make it come to pass right before them, and still by their traditions they turned Him down. No wonder broad is the way that leads to destruction. That's right. Strait is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life. Christ standing there...


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