<TITLE>10. Par 94-101</TITLE>L-94   Oh, if we, the people of America can, tonight, of all the Presbyterians, and Methodists, and Baptists, and Pentecostals, tear down your tradition that your denomination has built around you, separating brotherhood, "seemingly not having the faith." If we could get out of that old shell that we're in, and could come together and accept the gift of God, upon the basis that He gave it to us, it would be the best bomb shelter that I know of. I would rather stand behind that, the promises of God, than all the bomb shelters that they could build. How, what a nation, what a revival there would be, how the others nations would be scared to do anything about it. God has give us a gift, but we make light of it.

L-95 We try to bring it over in one little bunch, and say, "We got it, and you ain't got nothing else to do with it, because you don't see through my glasses." We mustn't do that. It's not right. As long as the devil can make you fight one another, he don't have to fight.

L-96 But when you see that uniting of the powers of God, gathering His church together from the four winds of the earth, then you're going to see something take place.

L-97   We find that, in the days of Solomon, God gave him a gift of discernment. It was a great gift, a gift to discern the thoughts, and so forth, of wisdom. And the people rallied around it. They made him king. And, you know, he become the talk of the world. Everybody talked about Israel. Now, they didn't have telephones and televisions, and things, then, they carried news from lip to ear. And every people coming through would see this great gift of God, working, and people would, why, they'd--they'd tell everybody. And his fame went world-wide. And all of them had no wars, no trouble, because they accepted the gift that God give them.

L-98   We all, tonight, we Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal section, could all just throw away our ideas, and come back and see what God said about It, and how He said It was supposed to be given. He can't change It. The way It fell on the Day of Pentecost, that's the way It fell at the house of Cornelius. And every time It ever fell, It fell the same way, under the same prescription that Peter wrote out, in Acts. And that's still the way it stands. It's got to stay that way. Any other way... There is not another place in the Bible where they ever received It any other way than carrying out that prescription of Acts 2. That's exactly. That's, and we get It today, that's the way it's got to come.

L-99   But in sincerity, man do receive God and believe Him, but if they would just... Then they pull theirselves off, and, "That, we got this and that's all there is to It." Then they separate themself. Then they won't take no new revelation. They organize it. "This is it. This is our doctrine," end with a--a period. If you'd have a denomination that will end your doctrine with a comma, "We believe this, plus as much as God will show us," then that's all right, I'll go for that; but never with a period. Cause, God is God, and time is moving on.

L-100   We are always trying to look back and see what Moody said, what Sankey said, what Finney said, what Wesley said, what Luther said. Them were man of that day.

L-101 Science don't look back and see what science said. Why, three hundred years ago, a French scientist proved that if a man would ever go the terrific speed of thirty miles an hour, gravitation would take him off the earth. Would you imagine the modern science saying that? Today he is going about two thousand miles an hour, trying to find something to keep from melting steel so he can go four thousand miles an hour. They don't look back and refer to him. They look forward.


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