<TITLE>13. Par 138-152</TITLE>L-138 That's what America needs, tonight; is not a new addition to politics; it's not a new denomination in the church; it's not something of that sort. They need to come together in one accord, and believe and accept the gift of the Holy Ghost that God has sent to us in this last days, where this great latter-day miracle revivals has broke out across the land.

L-139 But, any age, when God sends a gift to a nation, and that nation turns that gift down, that nation goes into chaos. Did you know, about fifty years ago, that, Russia, the pentecostal Blessing broke out in Russia, about fifty or seventy-five years ago, before it ever come here? That's right. And they turned it down, and you see what they got. Any nation! Look at England today; when the great Wesley revival, those great reform. Look at the nations that where the great revival struck, and when they turned it down, what happened to them.

L-140   And any nation that will receive a blessing that God sends, that nation prospers.

L-141 I tell you. I believe, tonight, that our safety is not in building bomb shelters or something like that. I believe our protection is made out of feathers. Under His wings, we'll rest. Oh, yes!

L-142 How you going to get in a bomb shelter? One of them bombs will blow a hundred and fifty miles square, and five hundred foot deep, in the earth. Why, it'd shake every bone in you, loose, if you was plumb down to the lava.

L-143 But there is a safety place, and that's in Jesus Christ. "Upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against It." That's the believer's protection, just under His wings, safely abiding. Certainly.

L-144   Notice this great time, if people would just believe what God sent them! But, to turn It down, is to go in chaos. And that's what we've done, as a nation, have turned down the blessings of God, and swapped It for tradition. But God has sent a witness, and the people has failed to see it.

L-145 And I think that the Pentecostal people, as many things as God has sent you, and yet our churches set half empty. The pastor can't do it himself. The laity has got to help in this. We're all a partner.

L-146 That's what started the chaos at the first time, at the Nicaea council. They wanted, when, "The doctrine of the Nicolaitanes." Nico means "to conquer," and laity means "take away from the laity, make a holy man."

L-147 That's not a holy man, holy hill. It's a holy God, a holy God amongst people. The laity has part of it. We are children. There's no great ones among us. How can you have faith when you desire respects one from another? We're all one, in Christ Jesus. There no big men and little men. We're all the same. We're children of one Father, and we're His children.

L-148   Now we notice, God has done great things for this nation. He sent a Tommy Osborn, an Oral Roberts, and--and many great men, across the country, dangled every little gift in front of the people.

L-149 But it's just like an old sailor, one time, going to the sea. The man said to him, this old salt... He had never... This man, a poet, had wrote about the sea, and talked about it, but he had never seen it. So, he was coming down to--to the sea. And, oh, he said... Met the old salt. And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"

L-150 He said, "Down to the sea, to hear the gulls, and to see its briny waves, and to see the blue sky reflect itself into the water."

L-151 The old salt puffed his pipe, four or five times, and said, "I don't see nothing so excited about it. I was born on it, fifty years ago." Sure. He had seen so much of it till it become common to him.

L-152 That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal people today. There'll come a time when this privilege will be taken from us. Then you'll cry for it, but won't find it. See? You've seen so much.


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