<TITLE>16. Par 184-199</TITLE>L-184 "Well, Lord, would you please break it down to me, and tell me just where them... what school those ravens went to there, to learn to speak Hebrew? What kind of a... Do they cook on gas stoves, or do they have a wood fire, or how do they do it? And where will they... What kind of a animal will they kill? They're just a small bird. How they going to kill a beef for me, to bring me a beef sandwich?" See? See? That wasn't questioned.

L-185   God, the--the trumpet of God, His voice sounded forth and said, "I have!" Not, "Elijah, I might do it" "I have done it. I will do it. I've already done it." Amen.

L-186 That's our God, tonight. Not, "He will do it." He has already done it. Amen. He's already done it. Amen. Not, "He will; He might; probably He will." He's already done it. "I've commanded the ravens."

L-187   He commended His Spirit to all men. He commended His blessings. He ascended on High, and give gifts to men. Somebody is going to get it. Somebody will turn it away. It's not my business how it comes. It's just so it gets there. God said it would be so, and it's so. Peter said, on the Day of Pentecost, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized, the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift, the Holy Ghost." How is It going to come? I don't know. "The--the promise is unto your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Now, you couldn't explain that away. The trumpet has done sounded, and I believe it. I obeyed it, and got it. Amen. Now try to argue me out of it once. Amen. Oh, I'm not perfect. No.

L-188   Like that night, the old colored sister, she said, "Elder, can I give a testimony?"
"Yes, ma'am."

L-189 She said, "I wants to say this one thing." She said, "I--I--I hain't what I want to be." And she said, "I hain't what I ought to be. But, there's one thing I know, I hain't what I used to be."

L-190 So, that, that's the way we feel about it now. I'm not what I used to be, because I'm saved tonight, by the grace of God, and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, upon the commission. It was poured out there on the Day of Pentecost, the promise given, and I believed it. Nothing uncertain. I heared the sound. I obeyed it, and I'm certain that's what it is. Certainly. I know it is. Sure.

L-191   Simeon, an old sage about eighty years old, hundreds of years since even a prophet being on earth, but walking around with a great reputation. The Holy Ghost spoke to him one day, said, "Simeon, you know, you're not going to die until you see the Lord's salvation." Glory!

L-192 Perhaps the high priest, rubbing his beard a few times, and said, "Simeon, you should comb your beard on the other side."
He said, "That don't make a bit of difference."
"How do you know you're right?"
"The Holy Ghost told me so. I'll not die."

L-193 "Why, Simeon, why, you're... Why, you're ready to die right now."

L-194 "Oh, I don't care what you say. But the God told me that I would not see death until I seen His salvation. Nothing uncertain. I won't die. I can't see death till I see Him." Amen. That's it.
"How you going to do it, Simeon?"
"I, that's not my business."
"Where is He at, Simeon?"
"I don't know."
"How you know you're going to see Him?"

L-195 "God said so. That's it. It's the Word. I'm not going to see death until I see Him." Oh, my!

L-196 "Oh, poor old fellow. Course, he's off at his head, you know. So just let him alone."

L-197 But he saw Him, anyhow. Yes, sir. God makes a way for them people who will take His Word.

L-198   Jesus, when He was here on earth, and He was standing there at the grave of Lazarus.

L-199 Or, before that, when He was in the discourse with the--with the people, of talking about how He, yet being not fifty years old, and said that He seen Abraham. You notice how positive He was? He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM. I AM." Not, "I was, or I will be." But, "I AM. I'm positive."


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