<TITLE>13. Par 147-158</TITLE>L-147   Not nothing you try to do, nothing you manufacture. You can't manufacture. You can't manufacture salvation. You can't manufacture the gifts. You got to bear the gifts. Certainly. See? The--the sheep doesn't, he doesn't manufacture wool. He has wool because he's a sheep. He just bears wool. The--the--the cherry tree doesn't manufacture cherries. It just bears cherries, because the life of it's that way.

L-148 And the Church of the living God doesn't inject This, to try to make themselves look like something. They're already what they are, by the grace of God. And the Word of God is joined with them, and they're joined with the Word. And the works that was brought forth in that perfect one, Jesus Christ, God manifested in flesh, will produce itself through every born-again believer. He said so. Amen. Nothing else. Now, that's something certain.

L-149   Now, it would be a bit--bit confusing to a man, if he never knew the real sound of the trumpet. Now, the man that's never been trained to the trumpet, and never heard it, well, he might be a bit confused when he hears something sound different from what he's heard. He's always been heard, "Join the church. Take your letter over here and over here." That might be all right. That's all he knows.

L-150 But then when you're coming back, about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking about the power of God and the things that He does; and how It makes the women and men, both, clean themselves up, from a life of sin; how It makes them walk godly, honestly. And the things that it does, and brings forth the baptism, speaking in tongues, healing the sick, casting out devils, prophesying, gifts, oh, visions, everything in the Church. Hallelujah! That's right. When it goes, then it's a bit confusing to them that never heard that kind of a trumpet.

L-151   "Well," you say, "my church doesn't teach that." Then it isn't blowing the Gospel trumpet. Glory! Right.

L-152 But to them trained soldiers, hallelujah, when they hear that trumpet sound, they know how to stand in order. Onward, Christian soldier! Glory! Oh, that's certain!
"How do you know it's certain?"
It's on the Word.
"Well," you say, "our church doesn't teach That."

L-153 But the trumpet sounds It. I don't want to be trained to a church creed, 'cause it'll shake and fall. But if you're trained to the Word, heavens and earth will pass away, and this Word will never pass away. Every creed, everything else, will fall. But this Word will never fail. Amen. That's the sound. That's the sound I want to hear. Yes, sir.
"Oh," you say, "how do I know?"

L-154 Jesus said, "My sheep hear My sound. They know My trumpet." He said, in Saint John, 14th chapter and 12th verse, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do he'll do also." Now, He said that.
If a man says, "Well?"

L-155 Hebrews 13:8 said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
"Oh," they say, "in a certain way."

L-156   Now, a real sheep will say, "Uh-oh. Oh, something squeaked, in that. That didn't sound right. Oh, that must been a French horn. That wasn't a trumpet, 'cause the Bible gives no uncertain sound."

L-157 It says, "You shall receive the Holy Ghost." Not, "You might." "You will, every one." How long? "To your children, and to your children's children, and them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." It'll sound the trumpet in every race and every generation, and they'll hear His voice. They'll believe It, those that's ordained to Life. Amen. They'll believe It because they know It's the Gospel trumpet sounding. It's not uncertain. Every soldier knows how to stand.

L-158   Now, you seen Peter, and John, James, and the early church, marching forward this way, because the trumpet, Jesus, said, "Go ye into all the world, preach the Gospel." Mark 16, see, "These signs shall follow them that believe." We see Peter, James, John, the rest of them lining up, march to That.


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