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Luk 2:26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Luk 2:27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
Luk 2:28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
Luk 2:29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
Luk 2:30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Psa 121:1 A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
Psa 121:2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
Psa 121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Psa 121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psa 121:5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
Psa 121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psa 121:7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Psa 121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
*THAT'S WHAT THE CHURCH TODAY LACKS, IS THE WARNING OF MAKING READY.
I think it--it should be--we should all be warned of the things that's come--coming. That's what the church today lacks, is the warning of making ready. I believe really, the church was in better condition forty years ago for Christ to come than it is today. Forty years... I was speaking on that the other day at the Westward Ho, at the Full Gospel Business Men's Convention, of how that the church in forty years lost ground just like it did in the wilderness. But it's the time now when the old fighters is dead, and we ought to get ourselves together, and get started on for the Kingdom of God, and go over and possess the full blessing.
*NOW, THAT SAME SPOKEN WORD OF GOD, THE
HOLY SPIRIT CAN MAKE ANY PROMISE OF GOD MANIFEST, IF YOU'LL JUST BELIEVE IT.
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E-24 See, you've got to come right back to know this Word's the truth. Now, that's exactly what gives me my bold stand in Christ, because I believe that Word is truth. It just cannot fail. It can no more fail than God, because it is God. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." Hebrews 4 tells us that the Word of God is powerful, more sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting both ways into the asunder and the marrow of the bone, and even a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. When Jesus looked upon the audience and perceived their thought, what was it? He was the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Well, they ought to have knowed it, that He was the Word of God made manifest. Now, that same spoken Word of God, the Holy Spirit can make any promise of God manifest, if you'll just believe it.
*IF YOU WANT TO HAVE REAL EXPECTATIONS IT
MUST BE BUILT UPON THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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E-25 Now, expectation,
it has to be built upon something that got a faith behind it. Because if
you're expecting something is because something's been promised or some way
like that. So if you want to have real expectations it
must be built upon THUS SAITH THE LORD. Look at Noah. It was...
Sometimes God asked you to do things that's ridiculous to your own human thinking. Now, remember, if you're going to enter this revival trying to figure out something, you might as well enter out to begin with, 'cause you can't do it. Remember, God does not know man by--or God... Man does not know God, rather, by his head. He knows Him by his heart. In the garden of Eden, why, man was divided between God and Satan. Satan took his head; God took his heart. With his intellectuals he tries to reason out things, but by faith in his heart through God will make him believe things that reason won't even vindicate. "For it's the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." See, it's... He's got to believe God's Word. Oh, brother, if you could just get that down good and sunk in your heart, it'd make every devil jump and leave right now. See? So... Oh, it--it does it.
*MAKE PREPARATIONS AS LONG AS YOU HEAR
GOD'S WORD, THEN MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR IT TO HAPPEN AND WAIT UNDER EXPECTATION.
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E-26 Now, when Noah was asked to
build an ark by God, why he moved with fear, knowing... Could you imagine what
the critics was saying? Noah was expecting it to rain,
because God said it was going to rain. Now, it never had rained on the
earth. Could you imagine the critics saying, "Oh, look, poor old fellow's
kind a little off at his head. But he said... "Where's that rain at Noah?
Tell me where it's at; I don't see any of it up there. There--there's no rain
from up there, never has been, never will be."
But Noah said, "God said so. That settles it. If God said so, He can create rain up there if He wanted to." So he was expecting it to rain, so he made preparations for the rain. Oh, I like that. Oh, make preparations as long as you hear God's Word, then make preparations for it to happen and wait under expectation. Oh, that makes me start feeling religious to begin with. See? To think that... God said so, then make--be expecting it.
*I BELIEVE JESUS IS COMING… I'M EXPECTING
IT, SO I'M PREPARING FOR IT; I'M WAITING FOR IT EVERY DAY BEING READY.
I believe Jesus is coming. Science is proving they can take a little pollen from something and some mucus, and put something in it and so forth like this, and they can almost make human life, they claim. Oh, they're so smart they can--got a sputnik up in the sky and a human heart beating in it. That don't bother me a bit. They say, "Well, one of these days you'll find out all the religion you're talking about is crazy." No, I won't. Jesus will be here. We'll have a millennium. We'll go home to glory. I'm expecting it, so I'm preparing for it; I'm waiting for it every day being ready. "When will He come?" I don't know, but if He isn't here today, I'll be looking tomorrow. I'm expecting it, just 'cause He said so, and I live daily under those expectations. That's right. You must have expectation, certainly. Noah did.
*I'M EXPECTING THE HOLY GHOST TO COME
DOWN AND SET IN ORDER A CHURCH THAT'LL GO TO MEET HIM
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E-50 "Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God," not led by some other fanatics or some organizations or something or another, they're led by the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit was given to the church to be the Overseer, the Tutor that was to raise the children of God, not our bishops, and cardinals, and so forth, but the Holy Ghost. I'm expecting the Holy Ghost, not denomination, not a bishop, not a Catholic priest, not a Baptist preacher, or a Pentecostal preacher; I'm expecting the Holy Ghost to come down and set in order a church that'll go to meet Him, filled with the power and the resurrection of Christ. I'm expecting that; I believe it. God promised it, that there'd be a church there without spot or wrinkle on it. I'm expecting it because God said it was so.
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15 And so He come, first, to redeem His Bride. He comes, second, as a
Rapture, to take away His Bride. He comes, third, with His Bride, King and
Queen; after, that's when many people are expecting the Coming.
But when He comes this time, hardly none but those who are ready will know when He comes. There'll just be an absence of people. They won't know what happened to them. They'll just be caught away, in a moment, and that they just come up missing. "Changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye." So just be ready for that. It'd be horrible some morning to miss a loved one, no one can find them. Wouldn't it be too bad to know it's done past and you missed it? So just keep before God.
*IF YOU GOT THAT BURNING DESIRE IN YOUR
HEART, THE HOLY SPIRIT'S OBLIGATED TO LEAD YOU TO IT…
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E-59 Now, the Holy Spirit was
obligated then, to lead him to that fountain. Amen. Oh, if you're expecting it, the same Holy Spirit leads you to that fountain.
It's got to open up somewhere. If you got that burning desire in your heart,
the Holy Spirit's obligated to lead you to it, right to that fountain filled
with Blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, where sinners (That's
unbelievers.), plunge beneath the flood, lose all their unbelief. That's right.
Oh, you want to be to a place to where you can surpass any doubt in your mind.
Don't you want to be that way? Well, there's a fountain somewhere to do that.
You're searching for it, searching for it.
Now, then at that time, if you've been searching for it,
testifying about it, expecting it because it was a promise... And every promise in the Book belongs to you, so you've been
searching for it, then if it was close to him, it was the Holy Spirit's
obligation to lead him to that place to where Christ was. That's the
Holy Spirit's obligation.
Now, if you believe in healing, it's the Holy Spirit's
obligation to lead you right up to the fountain. Now, you don't have to get in,
but He will lead it up, show you. If you're seeking the
Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit will lead you right up to the place where you
can receive the Holy Ghost, if you just let Him lead you.
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