<TITLE>14. Par 150-163</TITLE>L-150 If you're not believers, then why did God give you the Holy Ghost? You might have all kinds of demonstrations, you might run, speak in tongues, and do things like people that does have the Holy Ghost; but if that's not a genuine something in your heart, it'll never bring that Word to life. But if it's a genuine thing in there, "heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word can't fail."

L-151   "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." And you see others recovering. He didn't say they would recover right then. He said, "They would recover if they believed it."

L-152 How many that hears, that's the Truth? How many believes that still the Word of God is right? It's just misinterpreted to the people. Don't you believe that? It's just misinterpreted.

L-153   Now, not back in the days of Luther, not back in the days of Paul, not back in the days of Noah and these other witnesses, not fifteen years ago when I told you these things would come to pass; but today in Topeka, Kansas, this day, this hour, this minute, let's call the Word of God to a showdown. He promised this would happen in the last days.

L-154 Now do you believe He keeps His Word? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] He must keep His Word, in order to be God. He has to do it. He must keep His Word.

L-155   Now, did He promise, "As it was in the days of--of Sodom, it would be the same thing in the coming of the Son of man," that He would be--be revealed in the last days like He was to Abraham and his Seed at Sodom? Did He promise that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Luke the 17th chapter, 30th verse, you can read it. Now, He promised that. He said it would happen. Jesus said all Scriptures must be fulfilled, all He promised.

L-156 Did He promise in Malachi 4, what He would do in this last days? And immediately after this would come fire, and burn up the unbeliever, and the righteous would walk out upon the ashes of the unbeliever. That's right. Well, we're right here at the door.

L-157   Now, just before the great flood came in, what'd He promise? Just before coming out of Noah--of Noah... or Moses coming to bring the children of Israel out, what happened? Just before the coming of Jesus, what happened?

L-158 John, we didn't bring him to witness. We had him down here, but not to a witness, how that he was called away from all the theology of that day, to go into the wilderness, because he was to identify, he had to identify the Messiah.

L-159 Well, if we'd have went down to the school, to his father. Said, "Now, I'm a great friend of your dad. Oh, he was a great old man. I love him. And I know... Now isn't Brother Jones that Messiah? Now you know, John, he is."

L-160 See, he separated himself. At the age of nine years old, he went into the wilderness, because he was a wilderness lover. The Spirit of Elijah was upon him. And the Spirit of Elijah; wasn't Elijah, he was a man; it was the Spirit of God with that Word in that day. And he went into the wilderness. Then when he come out, he--he had to identify the Christ, not the good man, but, "Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending." Not the man was the best teacher, not the man was the most precious person in the land in that day, but, "Upon Whom the Holy Ghost Himself identified as the Word." The very Word Itself identified the Word.

L-161   Now He promised that in the last days. Jesus would do, be the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-162 Now let us bow our heads just a moment. Have faith. Don't doubt. Believe.
[A sister speaks in another tongue, and then gives an interpretation. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Thank the Lord.

L-163 All right. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]


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