<TITLE>14. Par 53-55</TITLE>L-53 And that's exactly what they got. And we find the sorrow that followed it. God is their King. God is our King. The Holy Spirit is our Leader. God give us the Holy Ghost; let's stay by It. The Bible of direction to see whether It is the Holy Ghost; the Holy Ghost can't promise something here and deny it over here. It's got to keep exactly what It said to remain God. All right. It's got to stay Holy Spirit, got to be the same. Yes.
They wanted to disbelieve Samuel when Samuel had the Word of the Lord and told them. Israel shouted and danced. Sure, they had a great time, but they found out, they wandered for forty years.
Now, in our wandering... Did you ever think what they did out there in the wilderness? Did you ever think of what Israel done? God blessed them. Sure they did. They had their gardens, their crops. They married their wives; they raised their children. God blessed them. And He's blessed the Pentecostal move. And sure. But remember, that wasn't what God sent them out to, to live in that wilderness. They was just to pass through the wilderness. They were on their road to the promised land.
The church was to go on to the full promise. The church tonight should be in her splendor of glory. She should be waiting for the coming of the Lord. Instead of that, She's scattered everywhere, wondering which is right. "Is this right? Is that right? I'll join this, and go over here, and down that." Oh return. Get away from those things.

L-54 Now, what has it done for us? It done that for them. It made them remain in the wilderness. It's brought us right back into the same vomit that we come out of. We organized ourself and put us right back in the same mess that we come out of.
Can't you understand that God never had an organization, never did ordain one, and never spoke one, but always against it. God wants to lead men. Men just can't lead themselves. They say, "Well, in the multitude of counsel."
That proved a great fake one time when Jehoshaphat went down and meet Ahab, and they said, "We got... Let's consult the Lord." It sound very Scriptural. It said, "There's Ramoth-Gilead; it belongs to us. God gave it to us. Hebrew children ought to be eating that wheat up there, but instead the enemy's eating it. Don't you think we should go up?"
And Jehoshaphat said, a good man in wrong company... That's the way the Pentecostal groups are tonight: fine people, Methodists, Baptists, and so forth. Pentecost is not an organization, Pentecost is an experience. See? Many good people got in the wrong company, listening to those dogmas and rejected the Word. That's exactly.

L-55 Notice, Jehoshaphat said, "Should not we consult the Lord?"
He said, "Sure, excuse me. Oh, of course, I ought to knowed of that. I got four hundred fine Hebrew prophets down here. I'll go down and get them."
So he went down, and they all prophesied. Zedekiah got him two horns and said, "Go on up." Sure, sounds logical. They said, "God gave us the land. That's ours."
But there's something goes with it. You must obey God to stay in that land.
That's the way it is tonight Pentecost. You disobeyed God when you organized and separated yourself, seemingly not having the faith. You may be Pentecostal, but you're not--by name, but you got to be Pentecostal under conditions; that the Life of Christ, the Word of God can flow through you and manifest Itself, and prove It's to be God, and God working through you, the Life of Christ in you.


<A HREF="P15">Next Page</A>