<TITLE>17. Par 60-63</TITLE>L-60 I come into India. Here some time ago Billy and I... When we went into India, where we had our greatest meeting we ever had, was in Bombay, the largest one. And I guess there was... I don't know--there was probably hundred thousand, two hundred thousand people accepted Christ at one time. We didn't know how we could control them (just like miles of just black hands going up, accepting Christ), when a total blind man on the platform received his sight, was made well. And there they was.
But because no churches would cooperate with it, then what did they do? When they... They--they misunderstood the sound of the Gospel. When that Methodist bishop stood there, and he said to me, he said, "Sir, we believe you to be an honorable man. We disagree with you. You've got a good name; we respect you. But to sponsor you..."
I said, "Sir, somebody's got to pick up out there. Here's the mayor standing here, that told me that there's at least, going to be at least five hundred thousand people in that gathering." I said, "There's going to be something happen. Come on in and get those people. Lead them to know Christ, if it's only by the book."
But you see, the trumpet was sounded for them, but they... It was an uncertain sound to them. They didn't know--they didn't know that Gospel trumpet. You see? They only knowed their ritual trumpet, their ecclesiastical trumpet. That's all they knowed, and lost it. And they'll pay for it at the day of the judgment. That's exactly right.

L-61 Jesus sounded His trumpet. He showed them by His signs and wonders that He was the Messiah. Yes, sir. The Christian soldier is trained to hear the Word-sound of the Gospel. The real Christian soldier is trained to that. Jesus said, "My sheep know My voice." What is the Voice? Jesus is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Then a real sheep of God hears the voice of the Word. "My sheep hear My voice, and a stranger they don't follow." Get it?
Creeds and dogmas, and so forth, is injected into It. They won't follow that. They've got to hear the unadulterated Word, and see It manifested. Watch just a little bit here in the Gospel in a few minutes, see if it is or not. They've got to... "My sheep hear My voice."

L-62 Look. All of Israel, of the tens of thousands that there was in them days (around four million)... And there was a hundred and twenty heard His voice, out of four million. If the rapture would come tonight, it would be scary if I'd tell you what I think would happen. It's true.
There's a lot, as I said to a brother this morning, there's a lot of so-called Christianity bloomed all over the earth. It's only a filler in a garden pointing to a statue. The statue's the thing to look at. Christ is that Image. Right. And the true borned again church is what He will take with Him. The rest of it's filler. That's right.

L-63 Now, the church didn't know Him. Why? Because they hadn't be-- been trained to the voice of the ecclesiastical systems of that day. It was an uncertain voice. They didn't know what to do when Jesus walked out there and foretold things, and prophesied things. And yet their own Scripture telling them that when He come that's what He'd do...
But they had made traditions out of it, and said, "Well, the Messiah will be so-and-so. Now, Dr. So-and-so and Rabbi So-and-so said, 'So-and-so.'" See, taking man's word. It's uncertain. But God's Word is positive the truth.
God said to Moses, His prophet (And the Word always comes to the prophet.), and said that He would be a prophet like him, and they were looking for that. And those who looked for it received it. See? "My sheep know My voice."


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