<TITLE>14. Par 159-171</TITLE>L-159 And we turning some other way, away from It? One going forward, another going backward? One saying, "Well, that was for another. That, that--that sound, was for another." Oh, no. It can't be that.

L-160 The whole Christian army hears the trumpet. God said that was the trumpet. He can't change it. That's the sound that He said would sound by. "This will all men know," and away goes the Church.

L-161   Some of them don't believe in His literal Coming. The Bible said He will come, so we are looking for His Coming. If He isn't here tonight, we'll be looking in the morning. If He isn't here in the morning, we'll be looking tomorrow night for Him. And we'll keep on looking. If we fall asleep, or--or we haven't fainted in vain. "For the trumpet of God shall sound that final trumpet, and the dead in Christ shall rise. And we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them, to meet the Lord in the air, and forever be there." That's the sound of the trumpet. Whether I live or whether I'm gone, don't make any difference. I'll hear the sound. I'll rise. Glory to God! Rise. Oh, yes. Yes.

L-162 Jesus said, that, "My sheep hear My voice." He was the Word made manifest. When the... That's how His sheep know Him.

L-163   Now look at the Pharisees and them in that day. "Oh," they said, "this Man is Beelzebub." When He told the woman at the well, where, about her sins, her husbands she had. When He told Nathanael where he was, under the tree where Philip called him, out under the fig tree, praying. Why, those teachers of that day said, "This Man is Beelzebub. He's a devil. He's a fortuneteller."

L-164 But that wasn't so with Peter, James, and John, the rest of them. They knowed it. Why? They knowed that God said that when the Messiah would come, under the inspired voice of Moses, He will be a prophet. And when they seen those things that He said being manifested and made perfect, they knowed that was sheep food. They knowed that was the trumpet. And they started following it. "My sheep know it," 'cause they seen the Word of God being manifested.

L-165   Now, the people today, they don't believe there is such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Drop in here or somewhere where they have the Holy Ghost, and they see the promise of God being fulfilled just exactly, why, "My sheep hear My voice." They know the sound of that trumpet because it's the Bible. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is still Hebrews 13:8, exactly.

L-166 I don't care, now, it don't make a bit of difference how many church horns is blowing. We got a lot of church tooter horns, you know, tooting around everything, saying, "Oh, days of miracles is past. There is no such a thing as Divine healing."

L-167 Oh, the real sheep don't listen for that. But they listen for that trumpet, that positive.

L-168   That church horn might sound anything. You might... Look what it's got today, the church horns. One is running this way, and one is running that way. And the Devil is setting back, say, "Boy, they just fighting one another. That's all. I don't even have to move my hand."

L-169 But, brother, let them all come to arms one time, come back to general orders. Oh, my! Then you're going to see an "onward, Christian soldiers," right, not listening to horns, but listening to the trumpet.

L-170   Let's just stop, just for a minute, and go back and look at a few now. We're fixing to close, 'cause I don't want to keep you here so long. But let's go back and look at some that heard this sound. Let's take... And they were certain. Now, I've showed you everything else is uncertain. Let's just take one old character, for a moment.

L-171   Let's take the prophet Job. Now, that man went through a test, but he knowed that God required a burnt offering. That's what God required, and that's all He required. And no matter how much disaster happened to his home... God don't always...


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