<TITLE>19. Par 247-262</TITLE>L-247 One day when He had a ministry of healing the sick and showing His Messiahship, why, everybody, "Oh, wonderful, Rabbi! Oh, come over to our church. Hold a meeting here, Rabbi. We want You over here. We want You over here." And a great group begin to follow Him.

L-248   But one day, that, God changed that ministry in Him, from miracles to the teaching of the Word.

L-249 Surely you can read between the lines. You're not that blind. If it is, you can lay a pencil between your eyes and put your eyes out, notice, notice, a pencil that would write the Word of God.

L-250 Notice, as soon as God changed His ministry from His miracles. His miracles went on, but not like that. He begin to tell them the straight Scripture Truth and where they was standing. The crowd walked away from Him. "This is a hard Saying." What happened?

L-251 The seventy that was following Him, He had ordained, they walked away, too. Said, "Who can understand a thing like This. That's all against everything we was ever taught." What happened?

L-252 And He turned to the twelve and said, "You want to go, too?"

L-253 That's when Peter said that wonderful word, "Lord, where would we go? Tell me something better."

L-254   Oh, God have mercy! Where can you find any creed that's better than the Word of God? Where can you find any love that's deeper than the love of Jesus Christ? Where can you find any satisfaction deeper than the satisfaction Jesus Christ gives?

L-255 What makes you do the things you do, is because you're... It shows an emptiness, a woman that wears her eyes blue, and cuts off her hair, and wears manicure. And a man that will stand and permit his wife and children to act like that, it goes to show there's an emptiness somewhere. That ought to be filled with power. It ought to be Christ in there. But it testifies of itself.

L-256 A man that would proselyte, bring believers from one group to another, it shows there's an emptiness there. He's working for an organization instead of the Kingdom of God. I don't care where they go to, as long as they're born of the Spirit of God, they'll live a Christian life. An emptiness, the works testify of it.

L-257   Notice, they went up there for remuneration. And God paid off on that investment they had made, and He give them more.

L-258 Now, if this Pentecostal group wants more, you live right and do right. God has got plenty to pay off with, and the Bank is open, day and night. But you'll have to not say, "Well, I guess I'll go up there once."

L-259 They went up there and said, "Well, I suppose... You know what? We've been up here for two days. Why, I think if He's going to do anything..."

L-260 "I been here at the altar, twenty minutes. If He's going to give me the Holy Ghost, He'd give It to me now." That's, that's our ideas. That's where we got. The sincerity...

L-261 Oh, we like to be like the children, when we're piped to, dance, and so forth. But I wonder about it.

L-262   Then, eight days, nine days, what if--what if Matthew would have raised up and said to--to Simon, "You know what? Jesus told us to wait up here. We're fundamentally right. We've waited. Now, I believe we've already received It. See? I believe we received. Let's start. You, you get a group named after you. And you get a group named after you. I'll tell you, we'll go out and preach the Gospel now"? No, no. That didn't work with the Scripture.


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