<TITLE>22. Par 80-83</TITLE>L-80 Brother Williams is setting here in front of me, a very personal, sweet friend of mine. I... He called Brother Sharritt this morning. And I had prayer for him over the phone. I was standing with Brother Sharritt one time in a citrus grove, and there was a tree standing there, a--a tree of... I believe it was a orange tree, and it had--it had about four or five different kinds of fruit on it. And I said, "Why, what kind of tree is that, Brother John?"
He said, "It's a--it is a orange tree."
"Well," I said, "I see a grapefruit, a tangerine, a tangelo, a lemon, all these different fruits."
He said, "Oh, yes."
I said, "How?"
He said, "They're grafted."
"Well," I said, "Now, that's wonderful, isn't it?"
He said, "Yeah. Anything with a citrus life will live with it."
That's very good. I stopped. Something stopped me. I looked again.

L-81 Like that day in--over in Finland, when that little boy was laying dead; I said, "Brother Moore, that's that little fellow I told you about right here in Shreveport. A little boy would be raised from the dead in a certain place." I said, "That's him. He's got to come back. Death can't hold him no more. God spoke." I said, "Death, turn him loose." Here he was. Amen. God can't lie. No, no.

L-82 I said, "Brother John, I see something. You see," I said, "now, I want to ask you something, Brother John, 'cause I want to get a sermon out of this." I said, "Now, next year those--all those citrus fruits, like lemon, and tangerine, and grapefruit, all that'll drop off, and it'll bear oranges?"
He said, "Oh, no, no, no, no." He said, "It'll bear its kind." He said, "The one that's got a lemon branch in it will bear a lemons, and the one that bears--that's got a--a--a tangerine will bear a tangerine."
"Why," I said, "I thought you said it was a orange tree."
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Did it quit bearing oranges?"
He said, "No. When the original tree puts out original vine, it bears an orange."
That's it. That's it. These denominations has been grafted in. They're still bearing denominational fruit, membership, so forth. But when the Tree puts out original branch again, there'll be a book of Acts wrote behind It.
"I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Why? The life that's--that's injected from the original Vine puts forth a branch, it is a Pentecostal branch with Pentecostal results, for the Life of Christ is in the branch, and it does His works.
I--I haven't got the gift of speaking in tongues, but I sure feel like I'd like to. Oh, how the Spirit bears record in my soul. It bears record with the Word that these things are true.

L-83 Do you believe? How many of you in here that's got prayer cards? Raise up your hands. Now, put your hands down. How many in here that does not have prayer cards, and yet you're sick, want something from God? Raise up your hands. All right. You believe.
Our heavenly Father, I know I'm standing before an audience that's quite a few of them are new, feeling Your Spirit settling down now. I've spoke Your Word and read Your prescription. I've told the people that's the way back.
Now, Nicodemus recognized, and so did the Sanhedrin when they seen You incarnate. They said, "Rabbi, we know You're a man sent from God, for nobody could do these things that You do except God be with him." And that same group, knowing that by the works that He said He did, and promised that His believers would do the same work, they called Him Beelzebub, and said His doctrine deceived the people.
Time hasn't changed, Father. We're in another crop. But You stayed right on. Unbelief didn't stop You. You moved right on just the same, doing what the Father told You to do, when You made Your clear statement, said, "I do nothing... The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing."


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