<TITLE>06. Par 53-62</TITLE>L-53 And--and just remember now, there at the--at the Ramada, there's going to be some very fine speakers at this Ramada convention this time, the Business Men, so you... down at the Ramada. So you be sure to try to attend this meeting. Brother Oral Roberts is going to be there for the night of the banquet.

L-54 And, now, I'm kind of a little part of Tucson, I'm going to hold up for Tucson. We got one down there, too, next Monday night, so if you happen to be around there, well, you come down there also. And you'll have to... might suffer a little time with me, 'cause I'm supposed to speak that one. So you come down if you can next Tuesday... next Monday night at the Ramada Motel, the Ramada Inn, at Tucson. And, course, we all know that Phoenix is just the outskirts of Tucson. We all know that, you see, so--so come down and see how the mountain folks live.

L-55   Now let us turn in our Bibles to Zechariah 14, the 6th and 7th chapter, I wish to read for a... to draw from this a little context of the text that I wish to take.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that in the evening time it shall be light.

L-56 Now I wish to draw from this, The Evening Messenger, for a con-... for a text: The Evening Messenger. Course, we can have messengers all through the day, and there has been messengers all through this day that He has spoke of, but there's coming an evening Message. And we want to look at that tonight and kind of in a way like Sunday school, talk on it a while.

L-57   Now, we all know what Zechariah here was speaking of, because that he said, "There will come a day that will be considered to the Lord, neither day nor night; but in the evening it shall be Light." Now, if we knew that it wasn't day nor night, it would have to be kind of a--a--a dismal day, kind of a foggy day.

L-58 And we all know that civilization has traveled from east to the west. The oldest civilization we have is China. And civilization has traveled from east to west, because it's followed the sun, and now we have got all the way to the West Coast. If we go any further, we're back East again, see. So we're at the end of the road.

L-59   We believe, as the Church, that the Gospel has been just about completed. We believe that the great messengers through the ages has, in these last days, last several hundred years, has fought for these great things; the justification by faith, Luther; sanctification, by Wesley; the baptism of the Holy Ghost, by the Pentecostals. We believe that those elements goes to make up the complete body, like the natural and the spiritual.

L-60 When a baby's born normally, what's the first thing? The first thing it breaks, is water; the next thing, is blood; and the next thing, is life.

L-61   First John 5:7 said, "There are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." They are One; you can't have the Father without having Son, you can't have the Son without having the Holy Ghost. See, they are One. "But there are three bear record in earth, the water, the blood, and the Spirit: and they agree in one." They're not one, but they agree in one. See?

L-62 Now, you can be justified without being sanctified; you can be sanctified without having the Holy Ghost. See? The Holy Ghost is the indwelling Presence of Christ's power, in the Spirit. Now, we see that the natural types the spiritual, so the Church is in its complete maturity now: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit. We just come through the Seven Church Ages, at home, typing that out beautifully.


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