<TITLE>22. Par 223-232</TITLE>L-223 What was the matter? Paul didn't stop just at confession. He stayed with him till he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. He was on fire, and he like to burnt the city up. That's what's the matter.

L-224   That's what's the matter today. We just take them in as a confession, instead of taking them on to receive Christ, till they're born of the Spirit of God. That's what we need today, is them all-night meetings. Not just staying... I believe in all of our things we do. I believe in shouting; I believe in speaking in tongues. I believe in interpretation of tongues. I believe in Divine healing. I believe in all those things. But, yet, it's something better than that. It's the Birth, itself. It's the Holy Ghost, Itself, coming in us. These things are fine. But you... That's good. But, is like the colored man eating watermelon, "There's more of it." You've got to go on, until love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ burns into the life, then we could have a testimony meeting about what God is doing in our midst. That's right.

L-225   Jesus come walking to them, on the water, and they got scared. They said, "Oh, it's--it's spooky. We, we better not go to that meeting any more. It's funny."

L-226 They seen Him return again, in His power; just as He promised through the pages of these Bible, of these--these pages in this Bible, rather, that He would do this in the last days. And it walks in, and many of the people say, "Aw, That's just mental telepathy. That's spiritualism. That's some kind of a..." See? That's the same thing. And the only thing that'll save, that'll help us out of this, is to accept Jesus Christ. That's right. Notice. When He was...

L-227 All of them was scared, and they cried out, "Oh, what is This? We don't know." It looked scary. It looked spooky. What happened?

L-228 Right in that crucial moment, there come a Voice, "Fear not. It is I. Be not afraid."

L-229 Tonight, as I would say this, as we close our little testimony here. I got to do it, quickly. And I close their testimony, in closing this portion of the revival. Friends, when you see Jesus Christ do something like He's been doing here, our meeting of four nights is too short. I would like to stand here and take this Bible, from Genesis to Revelations, and prove to you that that's exactly the hour that we're living in. This is supposed to take place. According to the Bible, it's the last hour.

L-230   When Billy and I flew into India, just recently, they had a piece of paper. It's a bilingual country. And said, "The earthquakes must be over. The birds are returning back."

L-231 Now, India, they don't have these fine woven fences like we have. They pick up rocks and make their fences, and build their houses, and most of them. And for a day or two, all the little birds that lived in these rocks flew away, and went out. They wouldn't come back to the rocks, back to their nest. And then what happened? All the cattle that used to come in the--in the evening, when the sun would be hot, and they'd stand in the shadow of these walls, to keep cool; the sheep; they wouldn't do it. They got right out in the middle of the field and stood against one another.
They thought, "That's strange. What's happened to them?"

L-232 And then, all at once, an earthquake swept the country. All the walls fell down. And then it was down for two or three days, the earthquakes. Then, all at once, what was left standing up, the little birds begin to come in again, come back. They said, "The earthquakes must be over."


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