<TITLE>16. Par 171-186</TITLE>L-171 Let's say that was a hospital. He went in there by the leading of the Spirit. He found one man that He knowed was ready. And He spoke, that man. He told him the secret of his life, told him there.

L-172 He wasn't unable to walk. He could walk. Somebody could beat him, running. He said, "When I'm coming, another steps before me." See? He wasn't blind, neither was he deaf, neither was he dumb. He wasn't crippled. He had some kind of a retarded disease, wasn't going to kill him. He had it thirty-eight years. And he would try to get down there, and somebody a little better off than him would step in, then the virtue of the Angel left.

L-173   We go in today and find a man of God, led by the Spirit of God, sees a vision, goes, does something like that, and they say, "Why, here is Jones, sets on the corner. Let me see you healers heal him."

L-174 You see that same old devil, that said to Jesus, with a rag wrapped around His eyes? And said... Hit Him on the head with a stick. And said... Changed the stick, from one hand to another. Said, "Tell us who hit You. We'll believe You're a prophet, then."

L-175 Why, before the world ever begin, He knowed who had that stick in their hand. He didn't clown for nobody. He did exactly what the will of God was. The Church will do the same. See?

L-176 The sheep-gate, but they were watching for something. They were looking for something.

L-177   Now, if them said, "Oh, well, we'll go up there and see what the rest of them does. We'll see if that looks supernatural." They never got nothing.

L-178 But it's that man that had to press up, not set at the back, but in the front; that man who waited for the altar call, that man who waited to see something supernatural.

L-179 Like this man here, Brother Williams' boy, raised in a Pentecostal family. But, yet, one time, standing in a meeting where his daddy felt led to send him, and there that young fellow standing there, and he seen the supernatural hand of God, quickly he become a Christian. He was ready to accept It, for he seen the moving of the water. He knowed there was something supernatural.

L-180   It's not a "join church, shake hands, and a million more in '44, or a new church, a new building, or new something."

L-181 It was a new life, that come by a supernatural move, that they were looking for it to happen. They knowed every certain season; then come down, and they waited.

L-182 Now, if it isn't going on all the time, and we're on top the house, jumping around, we feel, "Well, we'll leave this church. It's cooled off." What a nonsense! How we can't wait! Abraham didn't, wait... He didn't think God had cooled off. He waited twenty-five years, then he seen the hand of God move.

L-183 They waited at a sheep-gate, from month to month, for whatever it was, for that one supernatural moving. But they looked for it. Oh, my! They were looking for it.

L-184   And today we've lost that vision, Pentecost. We've lost something. Let's look to Christ. Our denominations has spread itself till it's went way out, and now we're fighting and trying to get more and bigger churches, and higher classes, and better educated preachers, and things. And what have we got? We've got away from the very Thing that God told us to look at. What are you looking at?
Look and live. That's what we must do if we expect to live.

L-185 Others might have laughed at them, said, "That bunch of holy-rollers down there, down there around that pool. Why, they say there's a... Why, it's nothing but the wind. Well, the wind comes down, blows the water back."

L-186 Not to them. It was the Angel of mercy. It was the Angel of healing. And I believe it was the Angel, though it seems so simple. But, you see, God hides in simplicity.


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