<TITLE>17. Par -</TITLE>L-23-7 He got a Noah one time; He got a--He got a Moses one time; He got a--a Jeremiah; He got a--a Elijah; He got an Elisha; He got a John; He--He gets--He got a Samson. As long as He can get one man in His control, that's His voice; He can speak through it; He can condemn the world.
Oh, my, how He hungers and pines to get a man in His control. "That I can speak to him, I can let My Voice be known. Though he will stand a reproach, but I'll make My voice known." See?
Oh, yes, barrenness first, have to be bare; have to stand a reproach of barrenness. Sarah had to stand it. So did Zacharias and Elisabeth have to stand it.

L-24-2 Look today. I'm going to say something. Look today at the children of the harlot. She's taken nations under the political rule of denomination, the harlot and her daughters. Look what a generation of denominations raised up, and how few are the righteous. Don't you worry. Stay with the Word.
That's all right. You may be scoffed at, called holy-roller. You might be called all--any kind of a bad name, but stay right there. It's the Word, the reproach of the Word; the thing that they'll say about you.

L-24-4 A young fellow, he may be here this morning; he's a friend of mine: Jim Pool, young Jim. His--his people... He was asked the other day. Well, he was baptized here. Someone said to him, said, "If you were going to be baptized in a church, why didn't you get a big church or something?" See? But he saw the light. That was it. See? "More are the children of the unrighteous, than there is of the righteous." See? All right. How few are they of the righteous.
Look what a little handful there was in the day of Noah. See? Look what it was in the days of Sodom? See? How few are the righteous; how many children the harlot has. She just brings children any old way; but they're all bastard children. The harlot brings forth the harlot. The dog brings forth the dog. And the Christ brings forth the anointed. The Bible brings forth the righteous. So we have to stand the thought of being a little bunch. What a gracious thing it is.

L-24-6 Look at the great Ephesian church. There's only twelve in it. Look what a group we have today, the side of them. There's only eight souls in the days of Noah. There's only five in the days of Lot. No, four, Lot, his wife, and his two daughters; and she turned to a pillar of stone, after she got out by looking back. Actually three come out in that day. Jesus said, "As it was in them days..." It behooves us to watch and be careful.
How few are the righteous. But as ever, the scoffers must reproach. The barren--stand the reproach of barrenness first. My, I just got to hurry. I'm sorry; I want to help (See?) to get these kids. Just bear with me a little bit. See?

L-24-8 Man are always the same as ever. Now, I'm going to say something again, and I want you... And I don't know whether it's being taped or not, but if it is on tape, I want you to listen at me, you on the tape. Don't you miss it. But study it. Men now is like he's always been. He's praising God for what He's done, looking forward to what He will do, and ignoring what He has done and is doing. He praises God for what He has done; He looks forward to what He will do; but he ignores what God's a-doing, and there he misses the whole thing. Hope they get it. See? Ignoring what He's doing... He knows what He has done, and he knows the promise what He will do, but he fails to see what He's doing.
Oh, you Pentecostals, if you're not example of that. You're looking forward for something to happen; it's already--it's happened right under you, and you don't know it. "How oft would He have hovered you, as a hen does her brood; but you would not." You thought more of your traditions and denominations than you did of His Word and His Spirit. Yes.


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