<TITLE>10. Par 115-126</TITLE>L-115 He said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. These signs shall follow them, in all the world, and to every creature. In My Name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents, or drink deadly things, it wouldn't harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now, that is His qualification.

L-116 See, we try to qualify something. We are trying to make, qualify the church to what we think God's Word is. We can't qualify to the church. We've got to qualify to God.

L-117   I've always said, it's a great matching time. You paint your steps red, and watch your neighbor paint his red. Some of you women wear a certain kind of hat, at church, and watch the rest of the women get that.

L-118 Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy had this here water-head haircut, and look all the women. She wore them little old sack-colored aprons, or things like that, it's a scandalous for the woman to be on the street, with them stretched on like that. Look at all the women doing the same thing. It's an impersonation, but that's in the world. The church people picked it up, and it's a shame that they do it. It's wrong for them to do it, and it's a disgrace. And when we see it creeping into Pentecost, it's more disgraceful. That is right. But, you see, the church puts up with it and lets it go.

L-119 Now, we don't care. I never cared whether my coat matched my trousers, or my tie matched my coat. I want my experience to match God's Bible and His requirement. And that's what we as pentecostal people ought to do, is have our experience just like theirs was, because He's the same Jesus, the same Holy Ghost, the same power. He's a-living today, and He lives among us.

L-120   It kind of reminds me of one day His mother had gone off from Jerusalem, from the worship, and his foster daddy, Joseph. And they went three-day's journey, and just presuming that He was along with them, and they found out that He wasn't there.

L-121 And, you know, I want to liken that today. You know, the church has had a three-stage journey. Luther, Wesley, pentecost; three-stage journey. God will give them a message, justification, Luther, he hung onto it; then come sanctification through Wesley; then the baptism of the Holy Spirit, with pentecost. And I wonder if we didn't get off all on a big tantrum somewhere, to build big things and do great things, like Balaam had in his mind; great organizations, the--the one to outrun the other, and this one more, giving gold medals and stars for Sunday school and who could bring in the most members, and take in just anything into the church.

L-122 I tell you, there is one Church there is not a hypocrite in, that's the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that's baptized by the Holy Ghost. You're not persuaded in There. You are borned in There. You're sent in there by the Holy Spirit.

L-123 They found out. The parent found out that He wasn't among them.

L-124   Now in this hour, this great crisis is on, when we know that this nation is shaking. Not only the nation, but the world is shaking. It's at the end time. There is not another thing that I know to happen but the Rapture, the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's all ready.

L-125 And we see these gatherings. Oh, get every benefit, this convention coming up, get everything out of it you can get, that's of God. If you haven't got the Holy Ghost, just put it in your mind you're not going to leave here until you get It. That's the way to do it. Stay there, 'cause you... this is, might be your last opportunity. There may never be another convention on this West Coast. It may be beneath the sea, by that time, 'fore another one. So we don't know what could happen, so we... We're looking for the judgments of God to come upon the nations.

L-126   Now may I say this. They thought He was along. But they found out, in the crisis, that He wasn't. See, He wasn't with them.


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