<TITLE>05. Par 40-48</TITLE>L-40 Way back in the days of Luther, their power was horsepower. And then God, by getting Luther in His hands, controlled, out of a great organization, or a system, He let the man see that "the just shall live by faith." And when he was able to achieve justification, and preach it, the church come to Life. It come to Life and begin to move just a little bit, back under the days of the horsepowers, when horsepower was about ready to fade out, of the carriage, and horse and buggy. Now, he achieved justification, and, through that, then the church received Life by believing on Jesus Christ. Not taking some...
You say, "I believe the church. I believe this."

L-41   "To believe Him is Life." Justified by faith! Luther preached it. That was typed by the horse-and-buggy days.

L-42 Then he got a man in England, by the name of John Wesley, under His control, to take out all the isms, away from him. And He was able, by John Wesley, to bring into the church sanctification. Sanctification raised the church to its feet and got it able to walk. Now at the end of Wesley's age was the automobile, we realize that when the... end of the Wesley church, I mean. Not... See, every--every reformer comes at the end of the age. Now we find out that Wesley, in last of his church age, it come in just before the Pentecostals. Why, we see that the church got strength enough, through sanctification, to walk away from the things of the world. Sanctify means "separate for the glory of God." It's too bad it lost that. But it got strength enough.
Luther give it light, back in the horse-and-buggy day.

L-43 Wesley got it on its feet, to walking; sanctification, separating from the things of the world. Through that come the little branches off, like the Pilgrim Holiness, and Nazarenes, and whatevermore come from that, through sanctification.

L-44   But, remember, they couldn't stay still. The Pillar of Fire moved out. And they come to Azusa Street, here in California. And then what did It do? It represented the airplane days, from the automobile, when they... God was able, by the Wright brothers, to... or the man was, to achieve an airplane that could fly. Immediately, forerunning that, the Azusa Street pentecost fell, and man took to the air, into the supernatural, to the unknown. He spoke with unknown tongues, he done unknown things that was foreign to the church, because he had took off of the ground, he had left (the air) into the air. What did it? Immediately after the airplanes come on, he took to the air. God showed, by the airplanes, that His church was arising. He shows, by the natural things, what's happening in the spiritual. They always follow. Just like the wise men following the Star, to find Christ, after following It for two years.

L-45   Now notice, all those things are achievements that man has achieved, only are types and shadows of what God is a doing. He always does it that way. He has told us the signs that would be in the skies, the things that would be happening just before the coming of Christ. We see that now. It's only a pointing post. And we see science, how they have achieved, and how God has achieved by His church.

L-46 Does a man ride in an airplane? He don't want no horse and buggy no more, 'less he's just wanting a little fun. But the horse and buggy... Remember, what is the power in the airplane? Just more horses added, that's all.

L-47   And so when John Wesley found sanctification, a set-aside work from justification, he never condemned justification, he only added more power to it. See?

L-48 And when the Pentecostals found the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the restoration of the gifts, they never denied sanctification or justification, they just got more power and raised up, and went up because he found more power. See?


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