<TITLE>18. Par 150-158</TITLE>L-150   Closing, I'll say this. I was reading a story sometime ago, on a judge. He was a just man, a good man, was loved. And there was a bunch of people in the city that thought they could get by with anything, so, they had plenty, so they opened up a house of ill-fame, run a liquor store, liquor, everything like that. It was illegal. And they was caught by the law, the federal man, and was brought to court. And when all of the people of the city, the little city gathered in, they knowed this man had done a lot of things around there, the man that had run the ill-fame place. And they--they, the jury, found the man guilty, 'cause he was caught openhanded. And so then the judge found him guilty, and sentenced then for so many years, without bond, without appeal or anything, he sent him, because that's what the law read.

L-151   The people outside the court raced him, and said, "You know what? Every person in this town will hate you!" Said, "They hate you for making that decision on that man." They was all gamblers, themselves. And said, "We--we'll all hate you. We'll never elect you again. We'll never be a one of us vote for you," booing him as he went down the street.

L-152 And he stood just a minute, said, "Let me have word." He said, "I've done exactly what was my duty. The man was guilty, no matter who he was. And I had to sentence him according to the law that I swore I'd uphold."
He said, "You're hated in this town!"

L-153 He said, "But I'm loved greatly at home, by my people."

L-154 We might think the same thing, if you'll pardon the expression. I've stood for what I have been saved to do, uphold this Word of God. I know the denominations hate me for the things that I say, but I'm greatly loved at His House, among His people.
Let us pray.

L-155   Lord Jesus, we may be hated by the world, but loved of the Father. Help us, dear God. Help these people, that each one of them, Lord, that Thy blessings will rest upon them. Let us go beyond the camp now. Let us go beyond our own thinking. Let us go by the thinking of God. And the Bible said this, "Let the mind that was in Christ be in you." So let us think His thoughts, not our own thinking, because most the time we're wrong. So, to be sure, let His mind rest in us. And His mind was to do the Father's will, and the Father's will is His promised Word.

L-156 Let us go beyond the camp, tonight, Lord, and find Jesus. We'll never find Him by joining the church. We'll never find Him by shaking hands with some minister, or--or signing some creed, or something that we promise, to go to Sunday school so many days out of the year, and so forth. We'll only find Him in the Word, because He is the Word.

L-157 And as we see this day promised, that He would be outside the camp, put out again; now let us go beyond the camp, ready to bear His reproach; hated of this world, but loved of the One Who has invited us to the Camp. Grant it, Lord.

L-158   If there be those here who doesn't know Him, and has never went beyond the camp of some church affiliation, yet you profess to be a Christian. But when you say, "These things, I believe, is for another day," that shows it cannot be the Holy Spirit.
How can a man that's filled with the Holy Ghost ever be baptized using the name of "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"? When, Paul, the great apostle, said, "If a Angel comes from Heaven..." You might have done it, one time, not knowing any different. Those people did it, not knowing different, in Acts 19. But said, "An angel preaches anything different, let it be accursed."
How can you accept some creed, or some ism, some something another, when the Bible said, "The promise is unto you," this same thing, "the real baptism of the Holy Spirit"?


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