<TITLE>22. Par 226-236</TITLE>L-226   Now, I know, I feel that coming back. And, remember, with a little gift I can catch discernment of spirit, see. Now, you're resenting that, when I said Malachi 4. But let me tell you something you said, "Jesus said, 'If you can receive it, this is the Elijah that was spoke of.'"

L-227 But if you see what He said in--in--in St. Matthew, the 11th chapter and the 6th verse, "If you can receive it, this is he who was spoke, and said, 'I send My messenger before My face.'" That was Malachi 3, not Malachi 4.

L-228 For, in Malachi 4, He said, "Before this day come, the earth would be burned and the people would walk out upon it; be burnt like a stubble." That's right. He was talking then of the messenger before His face, which was an Elisha. That's...

L-229   I don't believe in all this here stuff going around today about Elijah's robe and all that stuff. I... All them phonies has to come, of course, to upset the real thing when it does come. But, let me tell you, there will rise a messenger at the end of this Pentecostal age and wind up the thing. It will be a man. Not a group, not a denomination; but a man. It's always been, and God cannot change His program, He's the Eternal God.

L-230   Remember, if that messenger (John) was the messenger of Malachi 4, then the Scriptures failed, for It said It would... "The earth would be burnt as a stubble, and the righteous would walk out upon the ashes of the wicked." So read It, and see if that isn't right. See? But Jesus never said that, He referred to Malachi 3, "I'll send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way for Me." That's exactly right.

L-231 Now, but remember, this other one was to restore the faith of the children back to the fathers, restore the faith of the children back to the Faith of the fathers, the original Bible.

L-232 That's exactly what Moses done. That's exactly what Jesus done. That's what exactly every messenger done down through the Bible, at the end time of that dispensation, they restored back the message. The people, through organizations and things, got all scrupled up and everything, in them days.

L-233   They've done the same thing today! So we're looking for a messenger. (God, send him!) Do you think we'll receive him? No, sir! He'll be "a crank and a fanatic," sure enough, but God will prove him. The real believer, them predestinated to Eternal Life, Jesus said, "All the Father has given Me will come, and no man can come unless My Father draws him. And all the Father hath" (past time) "given Me, they'll come." That's right, they were...

L-234 I don't believe in this here Baptist teaching of--of Eternal security. I believe it in a way, but I believe you're secure as long as you're in the Church. But you get out of the... out from under the Blood of Jesus Christ, you're not secure. I'm secure from the rain as long as I'm in here.

L-235 And when you are baptized into the Holy Ghost and say you got the Holy Ghost, and then deny God's Word? Say you believed and received the Holy Ghost, and then deny that the Word is true? Then how can that be the Holy Ghost when He was the One that wrote the Bible? The Holy Ghost deny His Own Word, say, "I--I was wrong, you are right"? No, that ain't God. No, sir.

L-236   Sharp Sword! (Lord, send us a great Message.) That's what we're looking for. Then, of course, when he comes to fix those stones and to cut them out for the building, what will happen? Many of them won't stand the Word test. They'll love their organization better than they love the Word of God, although that Word be vindicated by that man. He'll be a prophet that'll come in the Name of the Lord, and he'll be the one that'll come upon the earth. I believe it.
Oh, everybody says, "It'll be a group of people."


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