<TITLE>19. Par 192-206</TITLE>L-192   But if I love you and know what's the Truth... Have you ever heard me say anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass? No. I ask anybody. There are thousands of things that's been said, they all come to pass. Remember that time when Samuel was called out, I believe it was, and he said...? Israel wanted to make themselves like the rest of the nations. And that's what you Pentecostals are coming to. You want to act like the rest the people. You're not them kind of people. Keep away from it. The big churches and big fine things, O brother, don't do that. We preach the coming of the Lord is at hand, let's get to the fields down there and notify the heathen. See, do something about it.

L-193   But, you see, Samuel said, "Have I ever at one time taken any of your money from you for my living?"

L-194 They said, "No, Samuel, you never done that."

L-195 Said, "Did I ever tell you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass?"

L-196 "Oh, that's right, Samuel. We believe you're a prophet sent from God. Yes, sir. Everything you said come to pass, Samuel. But we want it anyhow." You see what happened. O brother, the Scripture just keeps repeating Itself back and forth through the Scripture, 'cause it's God's way of doing it, you see. You see, you hit these kind of times.

L-197 Let's get to our text right quick. Now, I been all this time, I didn't come to my text yet.

L-198   It's on my heart! I love you! Don't perish with the world! If you're of the world, you'll perish with the world. If you're of God, you'll go with Him in the resurrection. So change your nature tonight from the love of the world and the things of the world, and all these creeds and things, and look straight to Calvary to your Sacrifice; meet Him there on them grounds, 'cause that's the only place He'll ever meet you. He...

L-199 The Methodists says, "It's in our church"; the Baptists says, and the Pentecostals, and this, and the Presbyterians, and this.

L-200 But He said, "I'll meet them in one place, the Place I put My Name." That's in Jesus Christ. That's where God put His Name. That's the only place He'll meet you; and it's Christ, is the Word, the same yesterday... It's growed from the feet, thighs. And now it's in the head, fixing to go; manifesting in full measure the Bride, the same as the Groom.

L-201   Now let's go to our text, right quick, for about ten minutes, and then we'll close. Now our text, we... where we want to consider, is, it had happened again, as our text, as it usually has happened.

L-202 God sent His prophet as He... Word had promised of Malachi 3, "A messenger I'll send before My face to forerun His coming."

L-203 Now if you want to vindicate that, to prove it; Matthew, 11th chapter, vindicates the same. When the disciples of John came over and they seen Jesus, they said, "John is in prison." Said, "We've come to ask You whether he..."

L-204 John's eagle eye had been filmed over. And he was in the prison, he was fixing to die; said, "Go ask Him."

L-205 See, John said, "Oh, His fan's in His hand, He'll thoroughly purge His floor." He thought the Millennium would start right then, he thought the grain was ready. But it had to die and go into the stalk, come up again to make the true Bride. So he said, "He'll gather His wheat into the garner, and He'll burn with fire." Watch that--that forerunner of Christ in that age, what he said would happen. "The grain..."

L-206   And I hope you're not asleep. The grain is here! It'll be gathered into the garner. It was that Bride, that part of it. But what did He say will happen to the stalk? It'll be burned with unquenchable fire. Seek salvation now while you can. Be a grain, not a stalk. See? Go into the Life, not the old dead form; go into the Life of Christ, the Word made manifest, the... made manifest and vindicated so. This is the--this is the gathering time, the combine is coming. You'd better get into the grain, 'cause the shuck's going to be left behind.


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