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But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: (Acts 24:14)

37 And the Church, tonight, is called “crazy” because the people doesn’t have the discernment. If a man is born again, and you tell me that you have been born again, and you do not believe that Divine healing is a promise of God, and you do not believe that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is for the people today, then I’ll have to say that your birth was of the wrong spirit.

38 Cause, the Holy Ghost said, that, “This promise is unto you and your children, and to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

39 You are accepting it by an intellectual conception. People are taking somebody else’s word for it, and not got the discernment. They cannot discern between right and wrong.

40 I’m thinking, today, that, many of we intellectual giants; not we, but many intellectual giants. God’s people has never been great intellectuals. The Bible said, that, “The children of darkness is wiser in this world than the children of the Light.”

41 God likened His people unto sheep. They’re not smart and intelligent. He keeps them the way they are so He can lead them. If you try to use your own intellectual thinking, you can, you right then bar-out God. “Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.”

But it’s a great intellectual day that we live in.

42 Here, a few months ago, you read it in the newspaper. Up in New York, they had a—a trial. And two little preachers that felt led of the Lord, sometime ago; little fellows about like myself, that hardly knowed their ABC. And the Lord led them to the Bowery. And they bought a certain building, and there they was preaching the Gospel to their fallen brethren. Some great firm come to buy that. And all of them sold out, but these little preachers. They had a revelation that the Lord wanted them to stay there, so they held their property.

43 And the authorities brought them into court. And they sent and got one of the great intellectual giants, Attorney Greenwall, and he made those little fellows feel ashamed of theirselves. He placed his words so correctly and so educational-like, and in such a way that those little fellows didn’t know how to answer him. For, he was an intellectual giant, one of the best attorneys there is in the…in New York. And they had the little fellows so confused, they didn’t know what to say. Finally, he rapped and said, “What do you say for yourselves?”

44 And one of the little preachers got up, and held the other one’s hands, and he said, “Sir, the only thing that we know, that the Lord told us to take the building.”

45 And Attorney Greenwall said, “Here, stop that. We don’t want no Lord in on this case.”

46 About two weeks later, an airplane tried to go under the bridge, and it dove into the icy waters. And there Attorney Greenwall, laying in the water, struggling and dying. I wonder if he wanted God on that scene.

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As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. (Psalm 42:1)

43 David also wrote in, I believe the 47th Psalm, being a woodsman, he said, “As the hart thirsts for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God.” As the hart, the deer, panteth for the water brook, my soul thirst after Thee.

Now, being acquainted with the outdoors, and in Africa, and in the jungles, and the eastern countries where this Book the Bible was written, they have over there great herds of wild dogs, wolves. And David was acquainted with these animals.

And a little deer, when these wild, savage dogs run into a herd of deer… They have long fangs, and they… One of their choice spots is to grab the deer is just behind the ear, sink those fangs in, and then swing his weight. When he does it, he rips the deer’s neck. That’s all of it. The deer goes right down.

44 And if the deer, he cannot catch him in the jugular vein here, as we call it, he’s got another choice place. He grabs him right in the flank. And he will grab it with his teeth like that, and when he swings his weight, he throws the deer off his feet. And the dogs cover that deer and rip him to pieces just in a moment.

Now, many times the deer, when the dog grabs him in the side or up here, if he gets too tight a hold, well, he will—sometimes the swinging of the deer will make the chunk of meat pull out. Then the animal has the meat in its mouth, and if there’s no other dogs standing to cut it off, it can sometime escape. But it’s bleeding. The blood’s a pouring from the little fellow.

Now, if any hunter here knows anything about hunting, if a deer can get to water he can live. If that deer can’t get to water, he’s dead. And David knew that. And he said, “As the hart panteth for the water brook, my soul thirst after Thee.”

45 Could you imagine, the hounds has just grabbed and pulled a big chunk out of his side, his blood’s life is running out. The little deer stands sniffing for water, the hounds are just behind him. He—he’s got to find water or he will die.

David said, “That’s the way my soul thirsts for Thee. Oh, I must have You, Lord, or I’ll perish.” If you only knew, sinner friend, that the hounds of hell is right behind you, crippled and wounded by sin, and you’ve got to find Christ or perish. When that sort of a desire gets into a man’s heart, he will find Christ, when you get in that shape.

46 “As the hart panteth for the water brook. I must have it. I’m wounded. If I don’t have it, I’m gone.” And when you get to a place that you want Christ so bad, you must have Him or perish, you can’t sleep at night; you can’t eat; you’ve just got to find Him; blessed are you when you hunger and thirst after righteousness, you’ll find Eternal Life.

May God help you this afternoon to have that thirst for that Life, for there’s only one Life that’ll last forever; that’s Eternal Life, and given only by knowing Jesus Christ in the forgiveness of your sin. “He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath passed from death unto Life, and shall never come to the judgment.” You’ve done passed from death to Life. What it means…

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But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: (Deuteronomy 28:15)

21 Now, we took this text out of Deuteronomy. It’s a Greek word which has a compound meanings, or, it means, “two laws.” The Greek word, Deuteronomy, means “two different laws.”

And that’s just what God has, two different laws. And one of them is a law of death, and the other one is a law of Life. God has two laws. To follow Him, and serve Him and worship Him, is Life; to reject It is death. There is two laws in God.

22 Now, one of those laws was recog-…made recognized to the world, at Mount Sinai. God gave the law to Moses and Israel. Not that the law could help them, but the law only pointed out to them that they were sinners. Until that time, they didn’t know what sin was, till they had a law. There cannot be a law without a penalty. A law is not a law, without penalty. So, therefore, “The transgression of the law is sin, and the wages of sin is death.” So therefore, until God made them a law, there was no transgression reckoned to them.

If there’s no law here that says you can’t run over twenty miles an hour, then you could run over twenty miles an hour. But when there’s a law says you can’t do it, then there’s a law and a penalty behind it.

23 Now, death, the law of death, was the commandments given on Mount Sinai, which told man that he was a sinner. And, to transgress God’s law, he died. But there’s no salvation in the law. The…It was only a policeman that could put you in jail; it had nothing to bring you out with.

But then He gave another law, that was at Mount Calvary, where sin was reckoned in Jesus Christ, and there the penalty was paid. And not with…Without law, “but by grace you are saved,” by the grace of God, through predestination of God’s foreknowledge of your being.

24 Now we see these two laws, Deuteronomy, speaking of two laws. There was two laws. One was the law of death, and the other one the law of Life.

25 There was also two covenants give to the people. We’re going to speak of them in the morning.

One of them was given to Adam on condition, “if you do this and don’t do that,” but that law was broken. Adam, Eve broke that, in the garden of Eden.

Then God made the second covenant, and give that to Abraham, and that law was unconditional. “It isn’t what you’ve done or what you will do;” He said, “I have already done it.” That’s grace. That’s the law of Life. God did that for Abraham and his Seed after him, that’s, all of Abraham’s Seed.

As the Bible said, “All Israel will be saved,” but that don’t mean Jews. As Paul said, “That Israel which is inward, or Israel outward.” “Outward,” as we spoke of the other night, it was Isaac’s children, by sex. But the law of God was through Christ, which was Abraham’s Royal Seed, that, “by grace all Israel is saved.” That’s, “All that’s in Christ is saved,” all, God’s second covenant. But all these things foreshadowed Christ.

65-0220 - "God's Chosen Place Of Worship"

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I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (Psalm 40:1-2)

149 So when the little eagles learns to fly, I was noticing, I hooked, put my horse reins around a limb, and went over. I had some binoculars just watching. I seen that old mother eagle way up there; she was doing something, flopping around in the air. I got my glasses on her and watched her, ’cause we was bringing cattle down. And I looked up in there, and I seen her, how she was getting them little ones out. And she kept rooting them little ol’ eagles around and around up there.

150 And after a while, she got them all on her wings; and she just picked them up out of that old stinky nest, and went down into the valley, and she set her big wings down like that, and when she did, all those little eagles got off and begin to walk around there. First time they’d ever had their feet on grass, my, if they wasn’t having a big time. I said, “Lord, if that ain’t an old-fashion Holy Ghost revival, I never seen one in my life.” That’s right. I said, “Look at them!”

151 Out of that old stinky nest up there, you know, where the old stink and stickers and things, that’s the way God does. He lifts you up on the wings of an eagle, and packs you out of the old stinky things of the world into this place where all things are possible, free as you can be. Amen.

152 Then I notice them run around, grab a little mouthful of grass here, and run over, grab a little mouthful here, and playing, just having a big time, no condemnation at all. I thought, “Well now, what that old mother going to do?”

153 After she seen her little ones begin to play real good and have a good time, she set her wings again, and she went plumb way up to the highest rock that she could get. She set up there and perched herself, begin to look around. Oh, my. I thought, “That’s right. When the Lord Jesus took me out of the miry clay and set me on the Rock, Christ Jesus, He climbed the ramparts of Glory, setting on high, watching down. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.” No harm, no danger, no nothing else can take place, as long as we’re in His Divine Presence. Amen. Let come, let go what may; even death itself has lost its sting. Cause He’s standing yonder in Glory tonight; His eyes is watching this meeting to see just exactly what will take place, while His little ones are rallying together around the throne of God, rejoicing in the Word of God, shouting in the Presence of God, oh, my, carefree.

154 Them little fellows didn’t look for nothing. Boy, you let a coyote start towards one of them, he’d get the awfulest flogging he ever had in his life. Amen. Oh, my.

155 And when she set up there, then after a while, I set there about two hours watching her. A little northerner come across, a little green streak, comes up quick, the storm’s coming. And when she let out a scream, when she left that nest up there, she flew right down like that, let out one scream, and all them little eagles all over the—the little meadow there begin to run together. She threw out her wings like that. Every one of them little eagles just run and jumped up on the wing, put their little bill around a feather like that. She raised those great big master wings, and that storm coming down that hill screaming sixty miles an hour. She went just as straight to the rock as she could and took them to shelter.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. (Psalm 39:4-5)

93 Now, natural life, if we have natural life, in order to be active in this natural life, in natural things, we have to have a natural birth. They don’t just jerk you off of a tree somewhere, see, stick you out some way. They tried it, but it didn’t work. It’s got to be an actual birth, natural birth, to make you active so you can have the five senses, walk, talk, see, taste, feel, smell, hear, move around, so forth, because you’re then a human being, and you’re—you’re subject to all these things because they go into the natural life.

94 And, in such a birth, sometimes we become very wise in worldly wisdom or the affairs of the world, become Presidents and—and great scholars, and master mechanics and scientists, and so forth. And you always know, from the very beginning, it was Cain’s children that had that kind of wisdom; not Seth’s, they were humble sheepman. But Seth’s children were godly people. But Cain’s children was always smart, high, science, doctors and great man. That’s right. The Bible said so, you know, That teaches that. And very religious, but perished at the end. We become wise by going to school, taking scholarship, and so forth, we become very wise, smart, and can do things and say things, and sometimes outtalk a man that’s Spirit-filled. Didn’t Jesus say, “The children of this world is wiser than the children of the Kingdom”? Sure, ’cause they, by their intellects that they can—can talk and outsmart and outtalk, and take the Scriptures and twist It to make It say things that It doesn’t.

95 “Oh, It doesn’t exactly mean that.” When a man says that, get away from him. God watches over His Word, you know, the Bible said. It’s wrote just the way It should be. See? Now, It’s put in such a way to deceive, or to make the wise stumble over It. It’s so simple, that’s the reason they stumble over It. See? All right.

96 All this wisdom and things that they can accumulate, yet, but it is from…that birth is from beneath, this earth. It’s from the earth, and it is against the Spirit of God. The first birth, to make us active here, makes us mortal man, because of the sin act at the garden, made man come into the world by a woman. And a man that is born of a woman is of a few days, but a man that is born of Christ is Eternal. Job said, “A man that’s born of woman is few days and full of trouble.” Notice, but a man that’s born of Christ, has to be born from Above. Now, but a man that’s born of the earth, become wise and can almost outsmart.

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And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. (Ezekiel 1:4-12)

56 Here, a French scientist said, less than three hundred years ago, “If a man would ever make the terrific speed of thirty miles an hour, gravitation would take him from the earth. Thirty miles an hour!” Well, do you think that science would refer back to that today? Far be it! No, sir. They got him going about nine or ten hundred miles an hour. Yeah, or sometimes in a rocket, and then it’s sixteen hundred miles an hour. And still taking him forward!

57 Science has taken man forward, more forward, greater things with his mind than what…And that’s the only thing he has, is the tree of knowledge. Farther than the ministers has taken him with His Spirit, which is unlimited. But here is what it is. The science ain’t looking back to what science said a few years ago; science is taking what they got now and moving forward for something else.

58 But you ask the preacher; “Well, we’ll see what Moody said about It, we’ll see what Wesley said about It.” I don’t care what they said about It. I know what God said about It now. This is It, and I’m still looking for greater! That’s it. That’s the reason…

59 The Bible said, “Three unclean spirits come out of the mouth of the beast.” Do you know what? A “unclean spirits,” said, “like frogs.” Did you ever notice how a frog looks? A frog is always looking backwards, he never looks forward; looking back, always back, look back.

60 But the four beasts that had the four different heads, in Ezekiel, was looking forward and they couldn’t go backward. They were moving forward all the time. Everywhere they went, they was going straight forward. See the difference?

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And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. (Acts 20:20-24)

102 But, you know, I don’t say this sacrilegiously. I say it for truth. I feel like that way Paul did, when He said, in Acts 20:24, “None of these things move me.” “I am determined to know nothing among you; but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” I’m not bothered about these absolutes, whether it’s the pope, bishop, or a general overseer, or a counselor, or a system, or whatever it is, none of these things move me. I don’t care if they say, “Well, we—we won’t co-…” That don’t make a bit of difference. I’m determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ, His Word made manifest among us. I’m tied to That. That’s my anchor. I’ve anchored in That.

103 “Since I…” Paul said, “Since I met Him, on the road, I’ve turned around. I’ve…He straightened me out.”

104 My, how He straightened me out! What a straightening He had to do on me. But since He straightened me out, I got tied to It. I seen the Word was Truth, everything contrary to It was wrong.

105 You know what? He had a purpose in saving me. He had a purpose in saving you. And I am determined, by His will, to do His will. The reason He done it, I don’t know why He done it.

106 “Not add to It or take from It!” As I said, Revelation 22:19 said don’t do it. If He’s our absolute, it cannot be otherwise. There is no way for it to be otherwise. He’s got to be the absolute, the last Word.

107 You know, there were millions in sin when I got saved. He had a purpose in saving me. I’m the oddball amongst the brethren, many time; believes in predestination, seed of the serpent, baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, and all these other things that seems to be…and the visions, and the power of Christ returned back, and condemning organizations and things. I’m the oddball, but He had a reason to save me, a purpose for doing it. He saved me when there was millions of others in sin, but He saved me for some reason. There were educated man, there were smart man, there were theologians, there were bishops and doctors, and so forth, in the field, when He saved me, but He saved me for some reason.

108 And I see the Word is the absolute, and I’m tied to It, and determined I’ll know nothing else but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. He had a reason for it, and I’m determined to hold that reason. No matter what anybody else says, I don’t disfellowship them or discredit them, but I know what I’m tied to. He wanted me like this. He had me like this. I was made like that for a purpose. I had to be made up of all these qualities, and so forth, and all these no-accounts, so He could dig it out of me; put something in there, that was His Word. And I’m determined I’ll know nothing else but Christ.

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And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted. (Acts 20:7-12)

226 If the pastor preaches over twenty minutes, the trustee board calls him over into the room and say, “Looky here, pastor. We—we didn’t bring you here to do something like that. We have twenty-minutes program. When that’s over, let her go.”

227 What he needs to do is kick that bunch of trustees out the door, and take the Bible and preach all night, like Paul did, and see the resurrection of the dead. Exactly. They put him out of the building; the street corner is all right. “God is able of these stones…”

228 Television, uncensored picture shows, dirt, filth, and makes an example. Look at our young kids today. Look at our girls. See little bitty fellows coming from school, not over six years old, seven, eight, lighting up cigarettes. Why is it? Their mammy before them probably done it. If they didn’t do it, then some of the kids they’re associating with. Watch who your kids play with. Right. Here the other…

229 Some time ago, wife knows it, we was setting at the table. And my little Joseph let out a word that would make a drunken sailor ashamed of himself. I turned around. I said, “What’s that?” And mother like to fainted. The little fellow looked innocent.

230 He said, “What’s the matter, daddy?” And big tears in his eyes.

231 I said, “Don’t you never say a thing like that.” He didn’t know what it was all about. Come to find out, the kids at school was using that dirty word. I said, “Honey, that’s of the devil.”

232 See, there you are, your kids. It’s just got into a place, brother, till it’s just dog-eat-dog, such a conglomeration of sin. Oh, my! Television programs, sin-lovers, pleasure-lovers! Oh, my!

233 “Twenty minutes is long enough. I’ve got to see the late show.” See? “Hurry up and get this out of here. I got to do it.” See? They’ve done their religion. They went down there, and that’s enough.

234 But, I tell you, a real man or woman that’s born of the Spirit of God will set hour after hour, drinking in the Word of God. Not only that, but when it hits there, it anchors and changes the life. Amen. Yes.

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When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. (Deuteronomy 23:21-23)

6 I read a little story some time ago about blind Bartimaeus. He’d said that… I don’t know, it perhaps was fiction. But it said that he begged at the gate of Jericho. And he was a married man, and he had a little girl of about twelve years old. And he had never been able to see this little girl. And when he… If you set by the gate and had nothing for an enchantment to attract the attention of the—the people who passed by, it was much harder to get a coin.

As we see today, they’ll play a instrument or do something. Recently in India, oh, they have a—a cobra snake that they want to blow a little whistle to charm him, or—or a little monkey to beat them with a stick like they’re getting a whipping or something, something to attract the attention.

7 Blind Bartimaeus, they said, had two little turtledoves that turned little tumbles over each other. And that would attract the attention of the passer-by.

And also in this day, we find that a blind person is led by a dog that’s trained to take them across the street. I just forget what they call that. (What? Seeing eye.) In those days, instead of having a trained dog, they had a trained sheep that led them.

And said that one night, Bartimaeus’ wife took real sick. And he went along the side of the house and knelt down after the doctor had left and said that he didn’t know what to do for her. And he prayed to God, and he said, “Lord, if You’ll just let my dear precious wife get well, I promise You that I will take these two turtledoves and offer them to You for a sacrifice.” And his wife got well.

8 Some time later, that his little daughter got sick, very seriously ill with a fever. And he went out the side of his house again and prayed, and said, “Lord, I don’t have nothing left but my lamb. And if You’ll just let my baby live, I promise You that I’ll take my lamb and give it as a sacrifice upon the altar.” And as the little story goes, that his daughter got well.

On his road up to the church to offer the sacrifice, he met the priest. And he said, “Where goest thou, blind Bartimaeus?”

He said, “Priest, I go to the temple of the Lord to give my lamb for a sacrifice.”

And the priest said, “Bartimaeus, thou cannot give this lamb. I’ll… This lamb is your eyes. I’ll give you the money to buy you a lamb. You go to the stalls and—and buy a lamb and offer it, because this lamb is your eyes.”

Blind Bartimaeus said, “I am grateful to thee for this kindness that you’re willing to show to me. But, you see, I never offered God a lamb, I offered Him this lamb.”

“Well,” he said, “you can’t do that, because this lamb is your eyes.”

He said, “Oh, servant of the Lord, if I will only keep my promise to God, God will provide a lamb for my eyes.”

And how true that is. If we’ll just keep our promise to God, our vows, and go to our leadings.

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And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. (Acts 19:1-5)

136 But the Bible said you did. Now I want some theologian to disagree with that. See? See? It’s got to be. You say, “Well, baptism don’t make any difference.” Well, then, why was it written? Why did it make a difference to Paul? Why did it make a difference to all the rest of them? You’re either baptized…

The Bible said, “You have a name that you live, and you’re dead,” ’cause there’s not another name given under Heaven.

Why will you preach in It, pray in It, everything else, but, when you come to the pool, you reject It? Uh-huh. See?

I said to a man the other day, I said, “What if a man…”

He said, “Don’t make any difference.”

137 I said, “If a man come to you, and then said he was baptized in the name of ‘the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, and the Morning Star,’ would you say he’s all right?”

He said, “No, sir.”

I said, “Would you rebaptize him?”

“Yes.”

I say, “How would you baptize?”

Said, “In the name of ‘the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.’”

138 I said, “All right, now you did exactly, you placed…If you call those ‘names,’ you did the same thing he did when he said, ‘Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, and Morning Star,’ because that’s a title, and ‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost’ is a title. See?”

He said, “But Jesus said baptize, ‘the Name.’”

139 I said, “That’s exactly what He meant do. But what in, not—not…He didn’t say, ‘call these words.’ ‘Baptize them in the Name,’ Name! Oh, my!” I said, “‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost’ is titles. ‘The Name of the Father, Son…The Name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.’ See?” I said, “What did Peter say It was? What did the rest of them say It was? See? What is It? Uh-huh. The ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ is the Name of the ‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.’” He’s got about thirty thousand natives he’ll have to rebaptize again now. See? All right. But that’s right. Paul said, “If an Angel from Heaven…”

140 Paul told those people that wasn’t baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, Acts 19:5, that, in order to receive the Holy Ghost, they had to come. Though they were shouting and praising God, and doing great things, he said they had to come back and be rebaptized, again, in the Name of Jesus Christ. After John the Baptist had baptized them, had to come back and be rebaptized.

And he said, in Galatians 1:8, “If a Angel from Heaven teaches any other thing than I’ve taught you, let him be accursed.” Yes, sir. So we have to stay right with that Word, every Word of It. See?

141 Notice. Oh, don’t have no flaws; be absolutely sure. If there’s anything doubting in your mind, you better straighten it up now. Don’t wait till then, it’s too late. Don’t wait till you take the mark so deep you’ll never see It any more, you’ll be blind.

He blinded Israel, that He might manifest His Word. He’s doing the same thing to the Gentiles, ’cause here—here they are walking right into it just the same as they did then.

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