<TITLE>18. Par 176-188</TITLE>L-176 I was with John on the Isle of Patmos. I saw the vision of His Coming. I am. I--I saw Luther. I was with him when in the reformation.
I was with Wesley.

L-177   And now I'm here in Yuma, Arizona. Hallelujah! I'm identified tonight, here in this Stardust Motel, with a group of people who believes the same thing. "And now we're seated together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus." Hallelujah! I'm looking for His Coming in glory, some of these days. Identified with Him!
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever;
Someday He's coming, O glorious day!

L-178   I am now identified in the baptism of the Holy Ghost; not something out here on the street, something forty years ago. I have it right now, the glory and power of God, of forgiveness of sins. I see Him heal the sick, open the blinded eyes, see Him foretell things, read the hearts of the people. I'm identified with Him in His ministry at this day. Glory to God! I'm identified with Him, for deliverance in this last days. I trust to be a part of that great Bride that's coming some of these days.

L-179 No matter what the world may say, they may call us "crazy, hysterical, or Beelzebubs, or heretics," whatever they want to be. I still want to be identified with that group. I'm still there. I'm remain there. I was born there. I want to stay there. I'll always be there, 'cause God placed me there. I am. I left my church, to come identify myself with a bunch of holy-rollers. I'm one of them. I'm identified with them.
They say, "Billy, you lost your mind."

L-180   Maybe I did, but I found the mind of Christ. I found His Word, found His Presence, found that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever!... care what anybody else thinks about it. This is me. I'm the one that has to make my identification. I'm identified with Him, by God's Word. He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." I'm glad I'm identified in that. Yes, sir.

L-181   You know, the old master violinist, one time. You've heard the story. They had an old violin and auctioned it off. They wanted to sell it, and nobody would buy it. They said, "Who will give a dollar? Who will give a dollar and a half?" Finally, "Going once, going twice, a dollar and a half."

L-182 Finally an old gray-haired man stepped out of the audience. You know the story. Picked it up, said, "Let me have it." Put some rosin on his bow, and struck it a few times. The people begin to weep. The tears began to run off their faces, like that.

L-183 And when they did, the auctioneer picked up again, said, "Who will make one," said, "thousand dollars, two thousand, five thousand?"

L-184 What was the difference? The master, the one who knew it, the one who built it, he knowed how to get out of it what was in it.

L-185   And as long as we try to bring our churches out of creeds and denominations, we'll never do it. Let the Master Builder of mankind, Who made man in His own image, Who is building Him a Bride for the same thing, let His bow stroke of the Holy Ghost strike this Word in your heart one time, and it'll be our best example. No matter how many big churches you go to, and how many names is on the book, it'll do more for Jesus Christ than all the churches, and denominations, and creeds, and world churches, and organizations, in all the world.

L-186   He is making a Bride. Yes, sir. He's hewing the chips now, chopping off the world. Oh, church-joining, and creeds, and denominations, and dogmas, all has to be cut away from the Church; their formal ideas, their indifference, their doctrines and things. Come back and let the Master pick up the bow. Let the Master pick you up in His hands, strike the Word, say, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-187 Say, "Amen, Lord. Make me, mold me, make me, Lord, what I should be." Then there'll be a different thing.

L-188 Then, "If I be lifted up from the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me." Yes, sir.


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