<TITLE>15. Par 185-198</TITLE>L-185 And the Pentecostal people, when they crossed over, dancing and shouting like Miriam and them, when they hit the wilderness, they done the same thing that Moses did... or not... Israel did. They wanted a law. Grace had already provided everything. They wanted something so they could have doctors, and Ph.D's, and LL.D's, and they got it. And they journeyed there until every one of them died. Right.

L-186   And God took two men and sent them over: Caleb and Joshua. Why, they was only about--only about forty miles of journey, was all they had to walk. Why, they was just a day or two away from it. But they waited back here forty years, till they got all that stuff out of them, till all them people died out.

L-187 Well, it's just about time for a change now. We--we started organizing, doing the very same thing that we come out of, and brought it right back, and making this a tie-post, and this an absolute. "And if they don't believe It just exactly this way, bless God, they're not even in It at all." So what have you done? Set still and made members.

L-188 And what does the members know? Turn into the Word of God, and they see something happen, that's exactly the Word of God, why, they don't know which way to turn. They go ask some bishop or some presbyter, "What's this, and what's that?"

L-189 Why, it puts me in mind of a bunch of incubator chickens. I always felt sorry for an incubator chicken. He, he would "chirp, chirp," and ain't got no mammy to go to. He was turned out by a machine.

L-190 That's the way a lot of these preachers in this day: turned out by a big machine. Hollering about God, and don't know what even the Thing is. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-191   He was absolutely. He was tied to God, and God was the Word, and God proved it by Him. See? But there we are today. See? We got too many absolutes, and not the right absolute. See? There's only one Way, and that's Jesus. Jesus said, "I am the Way." And Jesus and the Word is the same thing.

L-192 And now God has prophesied in these last days, of what comes to pass. He promised these things in the last days. Jesus promised them, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." All the Scriptures that He promised for the last days, and we're living right in that time. And God, the Holy Spirit, is moving upon the people.

L-193 And the only thing you want to do is dance in the Spirit and speak in tongues. That's all you know about. That's all, the seed, has been planted. What we need is the full Gospel planted in a full heart, with a full power, to bring a full absolute. What's the matter?

L-194   Did you ever think what Israel done in the wilderness there? They married wives. They raised children, and crops, so forth, kissed the babies, and buried the dead, and married the young. God blessed them and they prospered, but they were still out of the promised land.

L-195 And that's the way Pentecost is today. Forty years ago, you wouldn't have thought you... Your mother and father would have had a spasm if they had thought you'd have got in this kind of condition. Certainly.

L-196 Them old-timers had tied to that Absolute, and held onto that Word, regardless of what it was. There's no denomination, presbyters, district men, or bishops, going to tell them anything about it. They walked in the Spirit, and went out and done miracles and performed things. They had Azusa Street meetings going everywhere, brush arbor meetings.

L-197 And, well, you can't even get men on the street corner anymore to testify. Oh! See? What have we got? Same thing Israel had.

L-198   Now, there rose up a fellow there at the end time, and begin to point, after forty years, "There is a whole land full of blessings over there. And the whole..." Cause, the hour had arrived, that God was going to take them over.


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