<TITLE>02. Par 4-8</TITLE>L-4 We just need more time in revivals. Someday I hope to get a tent that I've been wanting to get for so long. And I... and so we can stay a little longer, so we can get all the funny feelings away. People don't want to be like that, but they just actually are that way. See? We do. We gather together as a group of people just wherever we come from, different denominations catch us, whatever.
Then, when we come into congregations like this, then you see something mysterious happen. It's absolutely kind of shocks us. And so it... mainly with ministers. Not with these, but with ministers most. They're shepherds; they're guarding their sheep (See?), and so they're watching every little thing. You don't--can't blame the man (See?), because he's got to understand first.
But the thing... If a man just firmly criticizes and turns it down, then there's something wrong there. If a man won't give a consideration to--to look it through the Bible and search it out... Look, that's the way the Pharisees done our Lord.

L-5 Did you know every prophet that ever raised on the earth was never received by the people? Every messenger God ever sent was never received, and they didn't know who the messenger was until he was dead and gone. Now, that is right.
You Catholic people here, how that you failed to know Joan of Arc? Many of you school children remember it. That woman was a woman of God. She prophesied; she was a spiritual woman. And you know what your church done? Burned her as a witch. That's right. 'Course, two hundred years later you done some repentance. You dug up those priests' bodies and throwed them in the river when you realized she was a saint. See?
Always the past. They never knowed Patrick. And the people think Saint Patrick was a Catholic? About as much as I am. Watch where his schools are up in Ireland. No crosses and crucifixes with him. He firmly denounced the pope. But 'course, they try to make him with the church, but it's wrong.
I come from a Catholic family. I know what I speak of. I've got "Facts of Our Faith," and all those books that I've studied, as much as you could study. And so... But those things (See?), they go by. They never knew Elijah, they never knew John, they never knew Jesus till after His death, burial, and resurrection. And now, the Holy Spirit falling, and they won't know it (just like in the days of Noah) until the flood comes and takes them away (That's right.), the great flood comes in.

L-6 But if those Pharisees would've just set down, and reasoned... Jesus said to them, "You stoned the prophets. You--you whitened the--their walls of their--polished their sepulchers, and you're the one that put them in there." See? "But how... Which one of the prophets that God sent that your fathers didn't stone?" See? And those... So forth. We've got to set down and think it over.

L-7 There was them kind of like Nicodemus, the secret believer, come by night, slip around, said, "Rabbi, we know You're a teacher comes from God. No man can do the things that You do except God be with him."
Look at little Jairus. He maybe acted like he didn't believe in Divine healing, till his little daughter was laying at the point of death. God has a way of pulling that out and making you show your color. See? And then come right down to the spot, he was a believer. And it just had to come to a spot to make him see it. God is so good to us, and we're thankful for men and women, like setting here tonight (I am), that believes the Gospel, believes in Divine healing, watching.

L-8 I've always said about our organizations. I believe in them, and I believe that they're fine; they serve a purpose. But you see, when we make an organization, ninety percent of us when we make one, we put down, "This is what we believe," period. If you'd say, "This is what we believe (comma), plus as much as God will add to us," that's all right then. That--that's fine. See? That's exactly.


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